Tag: Machiko Terauchi

Child Abduction and Denial of Access Are Masked as Custody Determination in Japan

November 6, 2011

If, in a science fiction tale that takes place in a surreality full of excessive, ominous foreboding and half-visible appearances, 4000 jumping, running, frolicking children suddenly vanished from the playgrounds in your city’s neighborhood parks,  leaving startlingly empty desks in school classrooms, bunk beds instantly voided of their giggling inhabitants, PJ flannels dangling unused over … More Child Abduction and Denial of Access Are Masked as Custody Determination in Japan

Action Alert: Call for Sanctions and Effective Action to End Japanese International Parental Abduction

November 6, 2011

November  2011 Urge U.S. Congress to Sponsor H.R. 1940: International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2011 Louis “Rui” Prager,abducted June, 2010. An estimated 4000 American children have been abducted to and within Japan since 1994.  A grossly negligent U.S. government has turned a blind eye to this enormous abuse of children’s human rights … More Action Alert: Call for Sanctions and Effective Action to End Japanese International Parental Abduction

Japan Abducts Children

September 16, 2011

Child abduction is epidemic in Japan. My boy Rui is among the most recent victims. Decades of U.S. indifference and failure to demand rights and protection of our own children = complicity. Sanctions should have been imposed decades ago for each and every child. Now the problem is too big to solve, the military-strategic relationship … More Japan Abducts Children

Bread of Affliction

April 18, 2011

          “The matzah before us at our seder is like the poor bread that our fathers ate in Egypt. Matzah in the Haggadah is a remembrance of the affliction of enslavement. Let all who are hungry come and eat. Next year, may we all be free.” The bread of affliction is dry, sharp, and hard. … More Bread of Affliction