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

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 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

“I can feel you standing there, but I don’t see you anywhere.”

Whispering Pines Richard  Manuel & Robbie Robertson If you find me in a gloom or catch me in a dream Inside my lonely room there is no in between Whispering pines, rising of the tide If only one star shines that’s just enough to get inside I will wait until it all goes ’round With … More “I can feel you standing there, but I don’t see you anywhere.”

Children’s Rights Held Hostage, Double Crossed (Revised)

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)