To my friend, John.
On his daughter Kana’s birthday, apart when they shouldn’t be.
“Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.”
Solidarity.
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- Children Betrayed: Having declared unilateral surrender, the U.S. chief international children’s advocate Susan Jacobs should resign.
- My City’s In Ruins
- “Illusory at best; deceptive at worst.” Japan Continues to Offer Itself as a Haven for Child Abduction (House Subcommittee on Global Human Rights )
- Preparing for Japan’s Hague Ratification – Vital Legal Assistance is Available, Now!
- Japan’s Purported Ratification of the Hague Convention “to create the appearance of compliance with international norms but without any of the substance.”
- If I Only Had a Brain …
- God Only Knows
- In the Aftermath of Newtown, and Before Japan Fails (Again) to Give Parents and Children Justice
- Love to Rui, January 2013
- The Anatomy of a Kidnapping – from ABC Australian Radio
- Why all at once my heart took flight
- A Teacup of Water
- A Boy’s Will is the Wind’s Will (12 -12 -12 )
- When the Night Came On, It Was Very Calm
- Symposium on the Hague Convention Considering the Modality of International Family Mediation Organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Before and After Science – Fukushima – Japanese Scientists Bought With Nuclear Industry Money
- Grim Electoral Prospects / The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Is Not Over!
- Japan Cited 3 Times in U.S. Senate Resolution Condemning International Parental Child Abduction!
- New Party Backs Hague Treaty, and Progressive Family Measures in Upcoming Japanese Election
- Banging For Music
- New Year’s Eve Memory, 2005 (Rui is 7 Years Old)
- unfinished heart play (Rui is 7 years old – November 16, 2012)
- Disobedience or Disconnect Between Minister and Judges Within Japan’s Ministry of Justice? 「連れ去り」容認する司法に現役副市長が実名で告発〈ＡＥＲＡ〉
- Spreading His Seat On the Floor
- From the Shadows – Documentary Reveals Japanese State-Supported International Parental Kidnapping
- Proserpina – Go Home Abducted Child
- Hine Ma Tov
- Japanese Freeze and Father Flees: “I just wanted to get the custody of my child!”
- Who Needs Men? Sons and Daughters.
- Divorce Conflict Madness – Machiko Terauchi’s Indifference to Rui
- Japan Abducts Children (2)
- Japan’s Continuing Failure to Sign the Hague Abduction Convention
- My Angel
- Defiance of the Court: New Japanese Parental Abduction from Seattle Demonstrates the Need for New Preventive Regulation (Keisuke’s Law)
- Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Japanese Accession to International Child Abduction Convention Postponed for an Additional Year – U.S. Department of State Collaborates With MOFA “Pilot Project” to Abandon Internationally Abducted Children to Illegal Japanese Claims of Jurisdiction
- Pic (Thinking Together? The Condition is Critical!)
- And it’s 1, 2, 3 … What are we fightin’ for? (Photos)
- This is wrong …
- Senate Resolution: Resolve Cases of Children Abducted by Parents Across International Borders
- Odysseus and Telemachus (“Like one escaped from death.”)
- What Are U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Assurances Worth to Abducted Children and their Parents?
- Studies (Again) Reveal Pathogenic Outcome for Children Taken Away from Daddy
- Takao Tanase: The Hague Convention and Japan’s Parent-Child Law
- Come bug!
- Austrailan Television Tells International Parental Abduction Like It Is!
- “I can feel you standing there, but I don’t see you anywhere.”
- U.S. State Department: American Children For Sale: 3 Billion Dollars in Military Base Bad Faith Quid Pro Quo
- Obama to host Japanese Prime Minister Noda at White House on April 30. Does Barack Obama have a record of action to protect the lives, well-being and human rights of children? Should you expect the U.S. Government to suddenly grow a conscience on April 30th?
- Open Letter from Dr. Amy Savoie to the United States Congress and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Japanese Plan to Evacuate 40 Million People Revealed
Blogroll
- Kizuna Child-Parent Reunion 絆・チャイルド・ペアレント・リユニオン
- Japan Children's Rights Network
- BACHome – Bring Abducted Children Home
- Left Behind By Japan – Clive France's (Superb) Photo Project
- Jeremy Morley
- For Sean & Renee – David Morgan's Blog
- For Rion, Lauren and Julia – Bruce Gherbetti's Blog
- Rui's story – on Eric Kalmus' Japan Children's Rights Network
- Chilren's Rights Council of Japan
- tkmetalarts
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