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Japanese International Child Abduction Gets Brief Mention at Senate Confirmation Hearing of Ambassador Caroline Kennedy

September 19, 2013

This is a note I sent to Maryland Senator Ben Cardin (Democrat) today, Although I am a resident of New York State, not Maryland, I would like to write you today to express my deeply felt and sincere thanks to you for your having asked the new ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, if she is … More Japanese International Child Abduction Gets Brief Mention at Senate Confirmation Hearing of Ambassador Caroline Kennedy

Strange Fruit: Homologous Products of U.S. Sponsorship – Right Wing Violence and Child Abduction

September 16, 2013

View Post   Get ready for the Radiation Olympics – Japan 2020 Fruit of the Trees On Which They’re Grown, Watered by the United States (The following is a letter sent to the U.S. Congressional Representative from Astoria, New York in September, 2013.  I’d signed a petition and written a note to the Congressperson’s office … More Strange Fruit: Homologous Products of U.S. Sponsorship – Right Wing Violence and Child Abduction

Novelty and Savagery

September 16, 2013

Daily they would vainly storm, Pick and shovel, stroke for stroke; Where the flames would nightly swarm Was a dam when we awoke. Human sacrifices bled, Tortured screams would pierce the night, And where blazes seaward spread A canal would greet the light. – Goethe, Faust, 11123-30, (from Berman, p.64) ¹ Marshall Berman, who published … More Novelty and Savagery

U.N. officials to visit families of abductees – North Korean abductees – in Japan.

August 18, 2013

The story below appeared in the Yomiuri Shimbun on August 19th, 2013, announcing that the leading members of the UN Human Rights Council has created a Commission of Inquiry to travel to Japan to hold a new round of  interviews with  the surviving relatives of 15 to 20 Japanese who were abducted and taken to … More U.N. officials to visit families of abductees – North Korean abductees – in Japan.