U.S. to take up child abductions Kyodo News Japanese and U.S. officials met for the first time Friday to discuss how to address situations in which failed international marriages result in children being taken to Japan without the prior consent of U.S. parents, who are then denied access, according to the Foreign Ministry. During the meeting, the U.S. officials reiterated that Japan should accede to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects...
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Japan urged to sign accord against parental abductions Friday 22nd May, 06:18 AM JST TOKYO — The United States and three other western nations Thursday urged Japan to sign an accord against parental child abductions, saying scores of children are being held in the country. U.S., French, British and Canadian diplomats launched the rare joint appeal at a U.S. Embassy press conference, listing cases of foreign parents who have been unable...
Read MoreA surprise (reposted see link below)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki speaks often in Washington. He like to emphasize what he expects in his diplomatic mission. His first expectation and rule, is that he wants “no surprises” between the US and Japan.On Monday, March 9th, he was surprised; and not in the good way.A seemingly irrelevant House of Representatives resolution sponsored by a New Jersey Republican...
Read MoreLittle hope for Japan’s forsaken fathers
Denial of child abduction as a crime is hurting those left behind, writes Justin Norrie in Tokyo. FOUR years ago George Obiso’s former wife took his two young sons on a six-week holiday to Japan and never came back. Mr Obiso, 42, still recalls anxiously watching the clock in his Gold Coast home as he waited for their mother, Sachi Shimada, to return them on the designated day. “I waited and waited. I kept listening out for...
Read MoreChild access protest in Japan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7668654.stm Foreigners whose Japanese partners are refusing to let them see their children are pressing for government...
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Date of Birth: August 5, 2006
Date Child Kidnapped from U.S.: December 15, 2008
Current Condition of Child: Wayne Sawyer is now known exclusively in Japan as Kosaku Mori. He is subject to classic parental alienation tactics by the kidnappers. Kidnappers
have stated they made the false statement to Wayne, at age two and a half, that his father...
Date of Birth: March 2, 1997
Date Child Kidnapped from U.S.: June 10, 2003
Current Condition of Child: Unknown
Case Summary: Kaira was living with her father in northern Minnesota when the St. Louis County Court, 6th Judicial District, Virginia, Minnesota ordered that
Kaira would spend 2 weeks visitation with her non-custodial mother Ritsuko...
Date of Birth: August 27, 2002
Date Child Kidnapped from U.S.: February 27, 2008
Current Condition of Child: Karina is currently in second grade elementary school. She has not been able to talk to her father since late july 2009, when all communication ceased.
Karina has met her father first on March 21, 2009; after intense negotiation...
Date of Birth: 1-5-2006 / 8-2-2007
Date Child Kidnapped from U.S.: Dec 6th 2008
Current Condition of Child: Unknown
Case Summary: Father was awarded joint custody. Judge Carver also ordered three times in the court room that children’s American and Japanese passports were
to be turned over to mother’s attorney because she was a flight...