This video, for me as the grieving parent of a kidnapped child, was riveting. What follows here is a link to the first of five roughly 10-minute clips comprising an interview with Colin Jones, a U.S. lawyer and a professor in Kyoto. If you’re able to watch all 5 in sequence (you absolutely should!), you’ll … More Japanese Courts Fail Children: Interview with Law Professor Colin Jones
There are so many stories of Japanese parental child abduction that it disturbs the mind and makes it very hard to accept that the issue is not more widely known. Here are just a couple of interesting, moving links. Undoubtedly they will lead you to more: Abduction is Abduction Japan: parental kidnappings
This fall I sent Rui a photo montage with music via his mother’s email address. It was intended only for my boy to see, to keep some good memories of us alive within the strange, confusing thing that was being done to him. I was trying to counteract the sadness and negativity of this period … More My Buddy
This is astounding. In this case, the facts really do speak for themselves. On its website, the U.S. Embassy in Japan has compiled statistics for the U.S., Canada, France, Australia, and the United Kingdom showing the tremendous growth in the number of international child abduction cases by Japanese spouses since 2000, with the number of … More U.S. Embassy statistics show Japanese child abductions have quadrupled during past 4 years [Revised]
For Rui Boy 