Gradually, common-sense and knowledgeable voices have been appearing within Japan that are able to articulate the harmfulness and legal deadlocks created by Japanese legalized kidnapping as a response to divorce. It is a rare pleasure to be able to put forth here in English the words of one of those who have taken the long-standing … More Takao Tanase: The Hague Convention and Japan’s Parent-Child Law
2 year anniversary of my honeyboy’s kidnapping. Not a word. Rui, I love you more than words can tell. Tell your mother to bring you home to Daddy. Returning a bug to the park
On April 15th and April 16th, 2011, the ABC news broadcasts we had been waiting for aired to a national and then international audience. Without doubt, this was and is a significant step in bringing our dilemma and our cause to much wider exposure and much greater public awareness. For those of us who were … More ABC News – Children Abducted to Japan, Fathers Left Behind
Kensuke Ohunki, Specialist in the Japanese International Abduction of Children 1 While there is reason to be optimistic that Japan will eventually sign on to the Hague Convention, skepticism of it created by the fear-inducing spread of fabricated domestic violence claims has become a strategic consensus breaker that is being used to drive Japanese officials … More Children’s Rights Held Hostage, Double Crossed (Revised)
For Rui Boy 