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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- Unenforceability of Japanese Custody and Hague Abduction Convention Orders September 24, 2017
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- Cousins June 2, 2017
- Expulsion and Exile Are Our Common Passover April 11, 2017
- Lost Child of Japanese Abduction April 5, 2017
- “Well-undermined, old mole!”* In or out of grand treaties, state-sponsored child abuse arrives on cue February 20, 2017
- Baïlèro for Rui and Lois February 16, 2017
- Japanese Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court: Custody by State-Sponsored Child Abduction Will Persist January 26, 2017
- All Our Trials December 24, 2016
- Reciprocity in the Time of Despair December 22, 2016
- Rui is Eleven Years Old November 16, 2016
- Close to heaven, Crushed at the gate October 28, 2016
- Transitional Objects June 20, 2016
- The Fukushima nuclear disaster is ongoing June 6, 2016
- Japan is black hole for abducted children – Vancouver Sun June 6, 2016
- Buzzfeed Discovers Japanese Child Abduction For a Day. June 4, 2016
- Hard Times, No More June 1, 2016
- Erasure of the Father: Coercive Practices, Corrosive Effects In Japanese International Parental Child Abduction March 5, 2016
- The Erasure of the Father February 20, 2016
- Persistent Phantoms February 15, 2016
- New York Conference – The Loss of a Parent to the Child And the Loss of the Child to the Parent: Investigation of Relocation, Parental Alienation, and Parental Child Abduction January 5, 2016
- July 25th 2015 – Petition Draft: To End Child Abductions, Restore Our Children, Reject “Online Video Parenting”, and Stop the Goons! July 26, 2015
- “Stunning!” Congressional Committee Slams US State Department for Issuing False Report on Japan’s International Child Abductions July 22, 2015
- Jeremy Morely: Ineffective Access Rights in Japan under Hague Abduction Convention June 21, 2015
- Fathers’ Day 2015 June 21, 2015
- Wall Street Journal – Parents of Abducted Children Get No Help in Japan June 16, 2015
- Five Years Gone June 15, 2015
- We Have No Rights, and There is No Law: Abduction Cases in Sham Courts in Japan March 29, 2015
- Japanese International Parental Child Abduction – JIPCA – Human Rights Committee:Congressional Hearing Live Feed March 25, 2015
- Juridical Placebo March 23, 2015
- March 11th – Anniversary of Japan’s Well-Learned Lesson: ‘Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste’ March 11, 2015
- Lament 2014 December 25, 2014
- Remember, Remember, Remember November 19, 2014
- Remember, Remember, Sixteenth of November November 17, 2014
- Japan and the Results of the Hague Convention, 2014: A second child returned to Japan without protection. October 2, 2014
- The Dilatory State: Stand Back and Watch From the Shadows August 16, 2014
- Fatherless Day 2014 June 15, 2014
- June 10th (Part B) June 10, 2014
- June 10th June 10, 2014
- Persistence of the Old Regime: For Parents, Japanese State-Sanctioned International Child Abduction Goes On April 13, 2014
- 12 o’clock December 25, 2013
- Child Abduction Enforcment Law Passed by the U.S. House December 12, 2013
- New U.S. Ambassador Kennedy? Same Old International Child Abductions in the Framework of U.S. – Japan Relationship December 3, 2013
- The End of Ordinary November 28, 2013
- Everybody’s got to learn sometime November 20, 2013
- A Talking Book That Said Your Name (November 16, 2013 – Rui is 8 Years Old) November 19, 2013
- Somewhere October 21, 2013
- “The Damage to the Child and the Left Behind Parent is Incalculable and Lifelong.” Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2013 Sent to the House. October 10, 2013
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- Jeremy Morley Jeremy D. Morley concentrates on International Family Law. The firm works with clients around the world from its New York office, with a global network of local counsel. Mr Morley is the author of “International Family Law Practice”, the leading treat 5
- Kizuna Child-Parent Reunion 絆・チャイルド・ペアレント・リユニオン Kizuna Child-Parent Reunion- Kizuna CPR – is working toward restoring the human rights of children in Japan so they can once again enjoy their relationships with both parents. 9
- Left Behind By Japan – Clive France's (Superb) Photo Project Clive France’s moving photographs of parents of Japan’s abducted children. 6
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