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• Mutantfrog’s Joe Jones’s excellent discussion of rights and wrongs of divorce in Japan; causes stark conclusions for me

  
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  I often stop by an excellent website run by some young-Turk commentators on Japan called Mutantfrog. Full of insight and well-thought-out essays, one caught my eye a few weeks ago regarding what the Savoie Child Abduction Case has brought to the fore about divorce in Japan. It made me draw some harsh conclusions. ...
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• Sauce for the gander: Czech national abducts his child of J-NJ marriage; MOFA “powerless w/o Hague”

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Finally we have the turnabout that I bet will precipitate Japan signing the Hague. A Czech father has reportedly abducted his child out of Japan, and the MOFA says it is powerless since Japan is not a party to the Hague Treaty on Child Abductions. Well, sauce for the gander, isnt it?Two things I find interesting ...
  2 days ago

• 22 US Senators signed letter for Obama to address Child Abductions Issue during Japan visit

  
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  We reported on this on October 30, but back then only two US Senators had signed. Now as of November 5, 22 US Senators have signed a letter for Obama to address Child Abductions Issue during his Japan visit. Three scanned pages follow.
  4 days ago

• AOL on Child Abductions and child retriever Gus Zamorra, letter to Debito.org from Gus

  
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  AOL: Say you marry someone and you have children. You get divorced. Theres a custody battle. You win. Your ex-spouse refuses to accept the decision. He or she takes the children and flees overseas to a country that doesnt recognize your custody rights.What do you do?This is not a hypothetical question for thousands of ...
  5 days ago

• Open Letter to Pres. Obama re Nov 12 Japan Visit and Child Abductions from Left-Behind Parent

  
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  Conclusion: When you meet with Prime Minister Hatoyama, please remind him of his statements. There is no need to wait another two years to implement the rights Japan agreed to uphold when they became signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Please walk right up to Mr. Hatoyama, look ...
  6 days ago

• Letter from US Senators Boxer and Corker to Obama re Child Abductions, for his Nov 12 visit to Japan

  
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  Letter from two US senators to Obama on Japans Child Abductions issue: "It is particularly troubling that Japan remains the only G-7 industrialized nation that has yet to accede to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Hague Convention has been adopted by more than 70 ...
  1 week ago

• Global Post’s Justin McCurry on Savoie Child Abduction Case. Issue isn’t passe yet.

  
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  Excerpt: Savoie’s is one of about 80 cases of international parental child abduction involving U.S. citizens, while France and Britain are dealing with 35 each.The unofficial number is much higher, particularly when failed marriages between Japanese and people from other Asian countries are included. The Assembly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letter to Prime Minister Hatoyama regarding Child Abductions and legislative lag, from a Left-Behind Parent

  
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  Conclusion: While I believe you, Prime Minister Hatoyama, are sincere about resolving this issue, the facts lead me to distrust the bureaucrats in the Ministry of Justice and the Foreign Ministry. The Judicial Review Council and the Supreme Court knew about these problems in the first Judicial Reforms that began 10 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Joint statement by eight governments re Japan’s untenable stance on international child abductions

  
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  Joint Statement on International Child AbductionBy the Ambassadors of Australia, Canada, France, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United StatesExcerpt: Because parental child abduction involving Japan affects so many of our citizens, we, the Ambassadors to Japan of Canada, France, Italy, New ...
  2 weeks ago

• Missing 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten found dead

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 760
  Just two days after the tragic discovery of the body of missing Florida 7-year-old Somer Thompson in a Georgia landfill , police in Missouri have made another sad discovery. The body of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten, missing since Wednesday, has been located in a wooded area west of Jefferson City. Elizabeth ...
  2 weeks ago

• MSNBC.com/AP on left-behind dads in Japan regardless of nationality

  
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  Slightly dated article recently published in the South China Morning Post, but still worth a read, for how the issues of Japanese family law and child abductions affect Japanese too:AP: Yoshida has banded together with other divorced fathers to form a support group, one of several that have sprung up in recent years.A ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shibuya Street Rally Sat Oct 24 lunchtime on Rights of Children and the Hague Convention

  
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  Street Rally this Saturday (Oct. 24) on Rights of Children and the Hague ConventionDear parents, friends, and friends of the media,In connection with UN Week 2009, and to commemorate the founding on the UN on October 24, a street rally will be held this Saturday to support the Rights of Children, Joint Custody and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Asahi Shinbun EDITORIAL: Child abduction in Japan English Translation

  
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  Official English translation of the Asahi Editorial on the Child Abduction issue, with Japanese in previous entry today. There are some tweaks within, to eliminate "culture" as a factor in some places, while other places add it (as in, the lack of a "culture" of joint custody? Isnt that a legal issue?). And how ...
  2 weeks ago

• 朝日社説：「国際離婚紛争—親権や面接権の議論を」

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  The Asahi has this editorial from two days ago, in which it talks about the international attention being brought upon Japan for the child abductions issue. It gives a surprisingly balanced view. Although it threatens twice to devolve into issues of "differing customs and laws", it does say that the Hague Convention ...
  2 weeks ago

• Body found in Somer Thompson disappearance

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 760
  A sad resolution has likely come to distraught family members in the disappearance of Somer Thompson . Somer, 7, was ostensibly snatched on while walking home from school with her siblings . Police have not confirmed that the body is definitely Somer’s, but it sounds as if they’re almost positive the body found ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three days in, no leads in Somer Thompson disappearance

  
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  7-year-old Somer Thompson has “disappeared off the face of the earth,” Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler has admitted in a case that has “baffled” investigators. Somer’s mom Diena tearfully plead for the girl’s return, telling viewers that Somer’s twin brother was “lost” without her, but ...
  3 weeks ago

• Colin Jones in Japan Times: How J media is portraying J divorcees and child abductors as victims, NJ as perps

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Lawyer Colin Jones has hit us with a one-two punch this week in the Japan Times -- first by explaining what Christopher Savoies arrest and recent release for "kidnapping" his own kids has brought to light, and now about how the domestic media is reacting to it. Predictably, portraying Japanese as perpetual victim, ...
  3 weeks ago

• CBS News interviews Chris Savoie after his return to US

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Left-behind father in the Savoie Abduction Case, Christopher Savoie is interviewed on CBSs Early Show earlier today (courtesy of Newscenter5 Tennessee) after his recent release about his treatment in Japanese jails and the US Consulate Fukuoka. According to him, they knew he was coming and a consulate official was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Colin Jones in Japan Times: What the media attention from Savoie Child Abduction Case highlights

  
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  Colin Jones in the Japan Times: My own view is that as a matter of law, Japan could start returning abducted children tomorrow without having signed the Hague Convention — just as children who have been abducted to countries like the United States or England have been returned to Japan notwithstanding the countrys ...
  3 weeks ago

• CSM’s Kambayashi ties up Savoie Case, alludes to gender discrim

  
  debito.org — Authority: 133
  Just to complete the arc, heres the CSM surveying the final chapter of Christopher Savoies foray into getting his kids back: He gets released from jail and gets out of Dodge. But now, as weve pointed out here before, there are new problems related to this issue coming to light. In sum, Savoies stint in the clink ...
  3 weeks ago

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