Filmmakers tackle contentious issue of parents’ abduction of children to Japan By MICHAEL HASSETT Special to The Japan Times “We judge that it will be best for the child that the (parent) pray from the shadows for his healthy upbringing. If worried about the child, ask about him through others, secretly watch him from behind a wall, and be satisfied with what is heard about the way he is growing up. Acting in accordance with...

By MICHAEL HASSETT “Sport at its best obliterates divisions between peoples, such as ostentatious flag-waving and exaggerated national sentiment.” New York Times senior writer Howard W. French — who has covered China for the past five years, was Tokyo bureau chief from 1999 to 2003, and has lived overseas for all but 3 1/2 years since 1979 — made this astute observation last month after staying up most of the night in...

 Randy Collins says his ex-wife kidnapped his son and fled to her home country of Japan, which does not allow abducted children to be returned to overseas parents. Now, Collins is on a quest to change the law, and reunite with his son. JapanChildAbduction.com :  Im sorry for his story, but glad to see the local news helping to get his story known.  Each of us need to work our local news sources to help push this further and further...