Tag: Brian Prager

Persistence of the Old Regime: For Parents, Japanese State-Sanctioned International Child Abduction Goes On

April 13, 2014

The historian, Arno Mayer, once wrote words to the effect that it is difficult if not impossible to compose reasoned, ordered analysis of a conflict (a military and civil conflict) when the stakes are a fight to the death over a “Holy of Holies.”¹ He was referring in that text to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and … More Persistence of the Old Regime: For Parents, Japanese State-Sanctioned International Child Abduction Goes On

Child Abduction Enforcment Law Passed by the U.S. House

December 12, 2013

  “Even in the darkest times, we have a right to  expect some illumination.”   –  Hannah Arendt The story below (in Japanese) quotes U.S. parent and chldren’s rights activist, Paul Toland (co-founding member of U.S.-based Bring Abducted Children Home) saying, “I am only one of 400 people whose kids have been stolen to Japan … More Child Abduction Enforcment Law Passed by the U.S. House

A Talking Book That Said Your Name (November 16, 2013 – Rui is 8 Years Old)

November 19, 2013

These three songs are all I can reach out to you with from this helpless place here in New York. Rui, you’re in every dream.  I haven’t forgotten a thing. This is, for me, a memory of when you were small and we slept side by side. Graham Nash – Sleep Song When you were … More A Talking Book That Said Your Name (November 16, 2013 – Rui is 8 Years Old)

Somewhere

October 21, 2013

Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight Someone’s thinking of me and loving me tonight Somewhere out there someone’s saying a prayer That we’ll find one another in that big somewhere out there And even though I know how very far apart we are It helps to think we might be wishing on the same … More Somewhere