Category: Brian Prager

George Washington University Professor Joan S. Meier! Child Abduction Is Not Liberation!

March 16, 2013

In March 2013, I submitted a response to an editorial published on March 6th by the New York Times.   March, 2013 1 Since February 2011, when a nationally-broadcast, three-part interview appeared on ABC , parents of children kidnapped to Japan have hoped that sympathetic and indignant responses to our aggrieved children’s circumstances might find their way into … More George Washington University Professor Joan S. Meier! Child Abduction Is Not Liberation!

In the Aftermath of Newtown: Moral Panics Over Children and Violence in America and Japan

January 20, 2013

January 20, 2013 Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures: Narratives of Youth and Violence from Japan and the United States By Adrienne Carey Hurley It pains me that more people won’t read this book because they may never hear of it. It is richly suggestive and descriptive of the way that frustrated psychological need is disavowed … More In the Aftermath of Newtown: Moral Panics Over Children and Violence in America and Japan

The Anatomy of a Kidnapping – from ABC Australian Radio

January 1, 2013

The Anatomy of a Kidnapping is a radio documentary by ABC Australia, featuring Eric Kalmus – Director of The Japan Children’s Rights Network.   Professor of Law Colin Jones also renders his analysis. 1 This is how it works; a look inside the role of the Japanese government ministries, embassies and consulates in the international abduction … More The Anatomy of a Kidnapping – from ABC Australian Radio