Tonight, staring at my Facebook page and feeling despair, squeezed between the power of two national states to oppress and paralyze, my loneliness and demons of my son’s abduction hounding, the ghosts of my tormentors, the abductors of my son, hovering like Jacob’s angel, taunting my courage and the moral obligations and demands of love, … More “Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”
The subject is child abduction. The discussion is about slothfully slow, eventual accession to the Hague Convention and civil code reform will take place: Japan will continue to protect kidnappers, practice abduction internally by denying parents access to their own children, and hold out for reservations – conditions and exceptions for refusal to return kidnapped … More New Oxymoron: “Japanese Reform” – Interpret With Care
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations has issued a statement regarding the debate over accession to the Hague convention. Japan may sign the Hague, but reform requires that Japanese lawyers busy themselves dealing with the politics of adopting an international convention that is not popular by any stretch of the imagination. Offering appeasement to everyone … More Japanese Lawyers Issue An Opinion on Japanese International Parental Abduction
A thousand unanswered calls. A family ought to be a source of refuge and safety for a child, as well as for grown-ups. But thousands of abductions of children across international boundaries having taken place over the last decade have made Japan famous. The refuge these parents seek are family courts that predicate decisions regarding … More It’s a Family Matter
For Rui Boy 