Japan is a safe haven for parental child abduction. -Colin Jones, Professor Doshisa University Kyoto, Japan. In Japan, the parent that has physical possession of the children is guaranteed legal custody. It is ‘finders keepers, losers weepers’ in its rawest and most cruel form. -Jeremy Morley, International Family Attorney. Child abduction to and within Japan: … More Child abduction to and within Japan: Movie screening of “From the Shadows” and seminar – April 9th, 2012

  Dear Rui It isn’t that there’s nothing left to say Rui, my son;  there is too much and it overwhelms your Daddy to try to find words for it for you, from this distance.  How can the life in our minds find expression in plain, simple sentences? We are the still, receptive places between … More Winter Pictures

http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/japan-moves-closer-to-joining-child-custody-pact Japanese accession to the Hague Convention under this “legislation” should be rejected by all signatories and all decent people, everywhere. The legislation is a display of absolute defiance of the convention, and of the principle of international law. The purpose of the convention itself is to stop countries like Japan from continually abducting massive … More Reject Japanese Accession to the Hague Convention