日本の子供の権利の欠乏について出版した記事

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2007 年

• Defendant Akira Akasaka (ex-Hikari Genji member) admits using amphetamines after divorce and because unable to see son.  Original in Japanese.
• Harboring stolen children: int'l kidnappers find safe haven in Japan; Kyodo News; September 17, 2007. (cached copy)
• Utah Man In Custody Battle Suing LDS Church; various sources; March 20, 2007. Mike Gulbraa is suing the LDS Church for ordaining his son, abducted to Japan, against his wishes.
• Crime Spree - Foreigners who turn to Japan’s justice system for help find themselves ignored. Is incompetence to blame—or racism?; Metropolis Magazine;  March 15, 2007.  Several true stories of encounters between foreign residents of Japan and Japanese police.  The last is about an in-country child abduction and how the police ignored the friend of the Japanese mother who had just beaten up the foreign father, Steve Christy, and then detained him, helping the abducting Japanese mother get away. This seems to answer the question posed in the title.   (cached copy)
• Japanese Justice: Confess and be done with it; The Economist; February 8, 2007. This articles shows that not just family law in Japan is pretty messed up.  One common theme seems to be that judges are evaluated on how quickly they clear their case loads, which in family law, leads to judges not spending much time in proceedings they will eventually rule on.  In criminal law, a 99.9% conviction rate of defendants brought before judges, 95% of whom have already confessed and a suspiciously high number of suspects dying during up to 23 days of detention without contact with the outside world.

• Japanese court grants conditional freedom to young mother; JAPON EN ESPAÑOL; January 15, 2007 (Spanish). A judge has released Nilda Franchesca Mangual Torres, the mother of abducted son Shinta Nemoto with a 6 month suspended sentence, on 3 years of probation.  She has still not seen her son since he was abducted in July of 2006. (cached copy)

• 無戸籍児：離婚３００日以内誕生は前夫の子「法の壁」重く; Mainichi Shinbun, January 8, 2007.  Japanese mothers want DNA testing to be recognized as conclusive proof of the father even if child born within 300 days of divorce. (cached copy)

• Border battles: Custody disputes have been in the spotlight lately, but they are not unusual; National Post; January 6, 2007.  Discussion of Takara and Manami Wood case in light of recent news of forced recoveries in other cases.

• Wedding spelt the end;  January 06, 2007; The Sunday Mail (Qld). Coverage of George Obiso case in Australia in light of recent snatchback attempts. (cached copy)

• 離婚調停中に出生、戸籍ない女子高生の旅券申請保留に.  Yomiuri Shinbun, January 4, 2007.  Mother, fearing that the father would find her address never registers birth of daughter. (cached copy)

2006 年

• 中２女子：父刺し殺人未遂容疑で逮捕される　新潟・魚沼; Mainichi Daily News; December 26, 2006.  14-year-old girl stabs divorced father because he would not let her see her mother." (cached copy)

• Part 1 of 4: Frustrated Fathers of Abducted Children Turn to Public for Support; (By Kirsten Brown Scripps Howard Foundation Wire) Washington, December 15, 2006.  Four fathers quietly filed into a theater to watch "Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story," a documentary about North Korea's kidnapping of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s. If the names Walter Benda, Patrick Braden, Chris Kenyon and Paul Toland don't sound Japanese, it's because they're not. But their children are half-Japanese, and these fathers say Japan has committed the same crime against them that Japan accuses North Korea of committing.

• Part 2 of 4: Abducted Child Speaks Out About His Escape From Japan; (By Kirsten Brown Scripps Howard Foundation Wire) Washington, December 15, 2006. There is a saying in Japan: "If you look back as you're departing and you see the setting sun, you will return." On his last day of summer vacation, Chris Gulbraa, 15, rode his bike away from his home in Kasugai, Japan, without looking back - he had no intention of returning. Instead, he planned to fly to a reunion with his U.S. father, five years after his mother took him and his brother to Japan. He is the only child known to have returned on his own from such a separation.

• Part 3 of 4: Restraining Order Doesn't Stop Mother From Taking 1-year-old; (By Kirsten Brown Scripps Howard Foundation Wire) Washington, December 15, 2006. Patrick Braden spent only the first 11 months of his daughter's life with her before she was taken across the Pacific by her mother, Ryoko Uchiyama.  The night before their disappearance, Braden received a peculiar phone call from his ex-girlfriend, Uchiyama, who asked if he would like to spend a little time with their infant daughter, Melissa.

• Part 4 of 4: Japanese Laws 'Erase' American Father;  (By Kirsten Brown Scripps Howard Foundation Wire) Washington, December 15, 2006. The last time Brett Weed saw his 6-year-old son, Takoda, the pair was driving in Weed's black Ford pick-up, the one that his son liked to call, "Daddy's big truck." That was also the day Takoda cheerfully announced, "I have a Japanese daddy." Takoda's babyish words threw Weed, 42, but it confirmed what he had long suspected: his ex-wife, Kyoko Oda, was slowly replacing him not only as a spouse but also as a father.

• 生活保護費、母子加算３年で廃止　厚労省方針; Asahi Shinbun; 2006年11月30日.  社会保障費は０７年度予算の概算要求基準（シーリング）で、７７００億円の自然増を２２００億円抑制することが決まっている。同省は生活保護で４００億円 減らし、失業給付にあてる雇用保険の国庫負担の半減で１８００億円削減することで、計２２００億円の減額の達成を見込んでいる。 (cached copy)
• Legal que el padre secuestre a su hijo; Mal panorama para boricua presa en Japón (Spanish only) PRIMERA HORA; November 2, 2006. A 25 year old mother from Puerto Rico is currently being held in Jail in Japan on a weapons charge and a disturbing the peace charge . She reached an overload point of emotional despair over her inability to see her child, and the Japanese police and government's unwillingness to help her do so. So she went to the front door of the courthouse in Japan and said she was going to commit suicide if they did not help her. She apparently held a knife to her stomach. She was arrested and has been in the jail now for 2 months. There is a huge public outrage in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican communities in New York and Florida in the United States. (cached copy) 
• 'Urgent issues' dominate debate; Daily Yomiuri Online; November 1, 2006. Discusses how bullying-related suicides are a large scale national problem that is not being addressed by a proposed bill to revise the Fundamental Law of Education. (cached copy)
• Operator of notorious bulletin board lost in cyber space; AERA (translated from Japanese and published by Mainichi Daily News); October 10, 2006.  Although not related to family law, this article is about Hiroyuki Nishimura, the 29-year-old webmaster of Ni-Chaneru who has lost numerous lawsuits and been order to pay 10's of millions of yen. By ignoring court orders and hiding financial information, he illustrates clearly how difficult it is to enforce any civil court ruling in Japan even a monetary one.  You can just refuse to pay and it's rare for a creditor to be able to convince a court to declare individual bankrupt in order to be able to appoint a receiver to look into someone's financial affairs.  (cached copy)
• Japanese grandparents kidnap granddaughter because they don't like man that divorced daughter is dating.  October 14, 2006; Supreme Court suspends 10 month jail sentence from lower court.  It's unclear, but it sounds like the child has not been returned yet.  I call this the "OK for grandparents to kidnap" ruling. (cached copy)
• Divorces may spike after change in law; Japan Times; October 5, 2006.  As of April, spouses will be eligible for up to half of partner's pensions. (cached copy)
• Missing: Melissa Braden; The Early Show on CBS; September 19, 2006.  This is a transcript of a television interview with Patrick and FBI agent Herb Brown.  (cached copy)
• 風に吹かれて：ｉｎ　ｔｈｅ　Ｕ．Ｓ．Ａ．　増える「拉致」＝國枝すみれ; 毎日新聞; 2006年8月28日　東京夕刊.  (cached copy)
• Center planned to help single mothers collect payments from ex-husbands;  The Asahi Shimbun; September 8, 2006.  Contains some interesting statistics from a government survey, giving rates of child support payments by fathers, single mothers, child visitation. Also says that "Some 20.6 percent [of single mothers] said they wanted their former husbands out of their lives...".  If you would expect a single mother to be more likely than a remarried mother to want help from the natural father, this gives us a conservative estimate of the overall rate of denied visitation.
• Japanese grandparents kidnap granddaughter because they don't like man that divorced daughter is dating.  October 14, 2006; Supreme Court suspends 10 month jail sentence from lower court.  It's unclear, but it sounds like the child has not been returned yet.  I call this the "OK for grandparents to kidnap" ruling. (cached copy)

• Child custody in Japan isn't based on rules; San Francisco Chronicle; August 27, 2006.  (Japanese version also available.) A law professor discusses why institutional reasons rather than cultural ones are to blame for bad family law in Japan.  Much of Japan's family law is based on the need to cover up the fact that Japanese courts are powerless to enforce their own decisions.  It contains an example of culturally biased opinions regarding visitation made by a prominent "family expert" in a book on visitation, as well as descriptions of apparently mainstream anti-visitation opinions expressed by family court mediators.  Both of these, until now, were only available in Japanese. (cached copy)

• Gabriolans rally for return of children abducted to Japan; Gabriola Sounder; Monday, July 24 2006; More on the Murray Wood case and info that children’s author Sandy Duncan, novelist, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada and Professor Emeritus, McGill University, Georges Szanto, and his wife, Alison (Kit) Szanto and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Gary Prideaux have written letters of support for him. (cached copy)
• Parents' rights a demographic issue; The Japan Times; July 18, 2006; Law professor from Doshisha University in Kyoto postulates that prejudices against men in the legal might be effecting Japan's plummeting birth rate. (cached copy)

• 'It's a heartless country that would separate loved ones'; The Japan Times; July 18, 2006; Article by sponsored by Japan CRN discussing 4 cases of parental abduction by Japanese citizens and illustrating support by the Japanese government, despite claims to the contrary by the Japanese Ambassador to Canada, Sadaaki Numata.  (cached copy)

• Japan Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper Press Conference Transcript; June 28, 2006. Canadian Prime Minister Harper announced in this press conference that he discussed international parental abduction to Japan with Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi. Koizumi has no comment on this matter.
• Radio Interview with Japanese Ambassador to Canada, Sadaaki Numata, about International Kidnapping case of Murray Wood; March 31, 2006.  The Current, interviewed left-behind parent Murray Wood, international lawyer Jeremy Morley, and the Japanese Ambassador to Canada, Sadaaki Numata (cached copy).  They talked about the Japanese court and government responses to Murray's case and Japan's reputation as a haven for international abduction. Getting a response on the record from Ambassador Numata was a unique event. He appeared defensive and his replies show just how different Japan's family values are from so much of the rest of the world.
• US State Department evidence about family law problems in Japan; February 26, 2006; This describes various evidence available from the US State Department as to the problems with family law in Japan.  It includes a letter sent directly to left-behind parents. Some may be very effective in a court of law.
• Think of the Children : Japan's prejudiced legal system encourages desperate parents to abduct their own kids; Metropolis Magazine; January 2006. Front page feature on Japan's prejudiced legal system from this wide circulation free magazine.  (cached copy)
• 日本は親による子供の奪取の聖域である;  Kyodo News on CrissCross Japan; January 6, 2006.  This documents the strongest warning yet from Maura Harty, assistant secretary of the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, "If Japan has been fortunate enough to not yet have a case where one of their citizens has lost access to their child, that day will come."  The United States said Japan ranks top among East Asian counties in the numbers of parental abduction cases. Annette Marie Eddie-Callagain, an American lawyer practicing law in Okinawa Prefecture says, "Court orders from other countries are not recognized because an order from another jurisdiction, according to Japan, is an order that they do not have to follow." (Original English)  (cached copy)

2005 年

• Japan remains safe haven for parental abductions; Japan Times; December 31, 2005. Discusses Murray Woods' case and mentions Japan CRN.  (cached copy)

• Mixed marriages more popular now than ever; Asahi Shinbun; December 31, 2005.  Japanese marriages down, mixed marriages up. (cached copy)

  • 国際結婚は１５組に１組　昨年まとめ; 朝日新聞; 2005年12月31日.(cached copy)

• 親す なわち専門家は日本を子供の管理の条約に署名するようにせき立 てる Mainichi の毎日のニュース; 日曜日12 月4 日, 2005 年。カナダ大使館(貯蔵されたコピー でHague の大会及び国際的な子供の外転 のセミナーに 基づく 記事

• 国際的な子の奪取の民事面に関するハーグ条約 : マウラ・ハーティー米国国務次官補（領事業務担当） (cached copy)

• 世論の法廷で正義のために戦う; (日本語版) 読売新聞 2005 年12 月3 日。An article about the CRN Japan fight for change and the Japan CRN website.  Since you are reading this website, no need to say more. (Original English version)

• 親がkidnappers を回す時 毎日のYomiuri, 土曜日12 月3 日2005 年 。日本の市民の問題についての議論日本へ国際的に彼らの子供を 誘拐し, 非日本親へのアクセスの否定を助けるように裁判所を使 用する。記事は親左の後ろの2 つにインタビューする日本の配偶者がこれをした。これは日本媒体の" 外国の配偶者によって" の 傷つけられる日本親記事の最近のspate からの歓迎された変更で ある。(貯蔵されたコピー)

• Foreign wives complain their samurai husbands no knights in shining armor; Mainichi Online; November 23, 2005.  (cached copy)

• 弁護士によって阻止される終わる daughter's の外転 今日日本 , 日曜日, 10 月23 日, 2005 年。A 彼の妻 が管理を許可され, 次に祖父母に娘を採用してもらった後弁護士 と前の裁判官は彼の3 年の古い娘誘拐する。外転が彼が visitation の進行に加わるために仮定された日に起こったのでこ れは興味深い。(このtidbit これらの記事にないが, 誰かから来 るtv のそれを。見た) 彼の子供がいたどこに見つけるために彼が 誰かに支払わなければならなかったことを私用探偵の介入は提案する。ことをこれは示すあなたがシステムとよりよく知られてい るなれば, むだにあなたはあるために知っているそれを。複数の記事は日本語でまた出た。(貯蔵されたコピー

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• 離婚のGlobalization: 回 る酸っぱい国際的なロマンスの下げ気味の Yomiuri Shinbun; 10 月15 日, 2005 年。一般にdisgusting 記 事結果本当らしいJapanese の市民によって国際的な親の外転の増 加する数を正当化することを日本媒体機械の上のrev へ試みてい る誰かの。しかしあなたが注意深く読めば, 1) 日本が非日本家 族裁判所の司法権決定の国際的な大会を観察する必要性を感じな いことを確認する。2) visitation によってが1 年につき日本3) 子供visitation の法律が日本でとてもnon-existent の, その均 一で適度日本の市民である1 人の子供は海外法律(貯蔵されたコピ ー を使用する必要がある

• 親のための心痛は海外管理の戦いで つかまえた 星と縞; 10 月9 日, 2005 年; 国際的な親の外転にかかわる法律上の問題についての一般的な記 事日本(貯蔵されたコピー) を 述べる

• Yamila Castellanos: “I know that I will recover my daughter.”; Cosas.com; April 15, 2005.  (original Spanish) Recounts Yamila's story including details before the abductions.  Tells that she had to leave Japan because she was denied a visa, even though she was participating in a legal battle in court. (cached copy)

• 離婚 は子供上の激烈な戦いを誘発する 国際的な布 告者Tribune; 3 月19 日, 2005 年; 離婚の方法を得るために子供を使用しているレバーとして日本の夫及び妻についての話はアク セスする。それは相違にもかかわらず1 人の母を備えた肯定的なノートで首尾よく彼女の娘が彼女のex 夫に会うことを許可する終 わる。( 貯蔵されたコピー

• Powerless we.fre が戻るために子 供をなぜ誘拐したか Vancouver 日曜日; 3 月15 日, 2005 年; " Murray 木考えが最後の11 月なかった彼の ex 妻はそれらを... " に誘拐していたことに彼がvancouver 国際 的な空港で10 年古いTakara と7 年古いManami さようなら接吻し た; (貯蔵されたコピー

• 親の間で引き裂 かれる: 彼の2 人の子供のための最もよい心配が彼のex 妻と彼ら の管理を共有するべきであることをMurray 木は信じた。彼11 月 以来のそれらと見られる hasn't Vancouver 日曜日 ; 3 月15 日, 2005 年; " 親の外転のほとんどの物語のように, この1 つは愛から... " 始まった; (貯蔵さ れたコピー

• 外国人は今2 人のアメリカの市民, Alexandra Mallas 及びこの記事ショーで記述されている彼女の無名夫の例として家 族の法律の上で, 台なしになるJapan's を利用し始めている 。 子供管理の戦いは裁判所の対立を露出する 日本時間; 2 月4 日, 2005. (貯蔵されたコピー

2004 年

• IRRECONCILABLE 相違: 子 供は` hostage' を握った; 国際的な結婚の後で失敗しなさい 1 月29 日, 2005 年にAsahi の布告者 Tribune; 12 月4 日, 2004 年にAERA の雑誌。日本の女性の読者層のためにundeniably 意図されていてが, この記事は国際的な結 婚の子供関連問題を説明する。それはまたAERA で, 日本語で出版され, CRN 日本を述べる(英国の貯蔵されたコ ピー

• Yamila Castellanos は チリの日本大使館で彼女の娘を取り戻す助け を頼むために抗議を保持した彼女の日本の父によって誘拐された 。Videos を含む2 つの記事。 Recuperar Madre の sigue のluchando のpor hija のllevada のpor のsu の padre Jap?n ( apoyan 貯蔵された コピー Padres madre のque の fue separada de su のhija ( 貯蔵 されたコピー

• 国際的な子供の外転の Newsday.com シリーズ。(巧妙な, 失敗され る) 世界的な子供の外転及び細部についての優秀なオンラインシ リーズ子供を家に連れて来るいくつかの逆の外転。それはまた個 人の名前を含んでいる親(私をすべての記事のコピーを 貯蔵した, 従ってこれらのリンクがまたは記事が行ったら壊れる か, 私を知っている許可すれば助けた私はそれらをここに。設置 する)

• 選択はお母さん の後の少数少女を誘拐する - 裁判所はホノルルの人のため のclout 保持しない娘, 5 が日本へ, 連れて行かれた ホノルルの星の報告; 12 月6 日, 2004 年。日本へ娘 Marina を誘拐している彼の妻についてのAlan Kaneda's の物 語。( 貯蔵されたコピー

• ユタの管理の戦いはfeds, 日本を含 む Deseret の朝のニュース; 10 月25 日 , 2004 年。マイクロフォンGulbraa's の物語は驚きの暴露か ら, 続ける子供のよい興味に焦点を合わせる米国の彼らの有名な テレビコマーシャルにもかかわらず" 1 つの実体含まれて得ることに抵抗した教会後日のずっと聖者のイエス・キリストキリスト のである, 離婚されたカップルが残るメンバーに。" が (貯蔵されたコピーは

• 離婚の後の子供の管理を 得ること 今日日本; 10 月11 日, 2004 年。 日本と国際的な離婚(貯蔵されたコピー) のあなたの子供に会えな いの問題についてのTerrie Lloyd 著 Mentions that this may be accompanied by the parent losing their visa and the problem of forging applications for Divorce by Mutual Consent. 手紙

• 「私の視点」国際離婚 - 子供の問題で日本は協力を米保健福祉省長官　トミー・トンプソン; Asahi Shinbun の英国 版; 3 月25 日, 2004 年。日本がすべての後の子供サポ ートの回復のHague の多角の条約に加わることを行っていないこ とを健康と人間サービスの米国部の秘書は不平を言う。彼はまた Hague の誘拐の大会に署名すること及び自身の判決(貯蔵されたコ ピー)

• 離婚された日本語は子供 ("3u-{OE4e"8A / 日本語 に会う権 利のためにReuters 戦う; 2 月8 日, 2004 年 。Fathers' の日本のメンバーとのインタビュー ; Website 。" 上昇の離婚率の中間の何百ものたくさんはより多 くの子供毎年影響されている。2002 年に, 千人の人々につき2.3 の離婚, 大体二重率がドイツの千の1 レベルにつき2.4 と25 年早くそして対等いですあった。およそ300,000 人の子供はだった 複雑。" けれども日本の離婚された人々の半分と三番目間で彼らの子供に連絡することないがありなさいことを1 人の弁護士は推 定する。

2003 年

• 日本 - 国際的な子 供の外転のための避難所か. 平仮名の時間; 2003 年 12 月。平仮名のこの二か国語の記事は日本の親の 誘拐のそれと韓国と日本のabductees の問題を比較する ことによって雑誌の開始を時間を計る。ない* * 最初日本の言語 記事が主題の日本で出版したら, と2 人のcrc 日本関係者からの 特徴の引用である1 時の。(貯蔵されたコピー

• Japan's からの物語は外国親を 断念した 日本観測者; 2003 年11 月。Frans が日本の学校に彼女を入れた後Frans pau の大抵物語は, フラン スデンマークの国民妻がchildren's の家の彼女と断念される子供Isabelle と誘拐される彼女を再度取った。母はフランス裁判 所によって拘留するために刑を宣告され, Interpol によって望まれる。日本裁判所は母がFrans に法的管理があったという日本で 均一な事実にもかかわらずMaki へIsabelle's の名前を変えることを可能にした。その後で, 日本裁判所は母にinexplicably 管理を与えた。(貯蔵されたコピー

• 彼女の娘(元のスペイン語の保管を 得るために チリ人は戦う: Chilena のlucha のpor の lograr la custodia de su のhija ; 国際的 な出版物; 10 月24 日, 2003 年。東京のスペインの言語新聞の Yamila Castellanos の記事。(原物の貯蔵さ れたコピー

• チリ の領事館はYamila (元のスペイン語の例に続 く: Consulado のchileno のsigue el の caso de Yamila ; 国際的な出版物 ; 8 月11 日, 2003. (原物の貯蔵されたコピ ー

• 端のない支払そして苦痛。日本時す なわち議会, 日曜日8 月3 日, 2003 年の読者。 編集者への手紙は保護親の1 つの作戦の輪郭 を描く - visitation. (貯蔵されたコピー) のためのより 多くのそしてより多くのお金の 要求

• 日本の彼らの子供から離 婚されて, 外国の父に少数の管理の選択がある; (" 3u-{OE4e"8A / 日本の .jWashington のポスト; 7 月17 日, 2003 年; ページ A09 。法的に日本へまたはで" 彼らの子供を誘拐している日本の 母" の物語の4 人の父。日本の政府は子供の外転筋のための避難 所であり続ける。( 貯蔵されたコピ ー

• あなたの日本の妻を離婚しなさい - そしてあなたの子供を失いなさい; 7 月19 日, 2003 年; アジアシンガポール書(貯蔵されたコピー ) の1 つの再生タイヤからの問題そして複数の 場合

• 不完全な同盟米国, 子供 の外転についての確率の日本; Newsday.com; 7 月17 日, 2003 年 。 Walter Benda のより多くの適用範囲妻が伝 えられるところでは日本(貯蔵されたコピー) の子供を誘拐した後 米国の重罪の国際的な親の誘拐のために 起訴された

• 息子Spirited のためのヨルダンの 南お父さんLongs Mom 著日本へ; Salt 湖都市Tribune; 1 月19 日, 2003 年。ミハエルGulbraa の母は保護干 渉のための第3 程度の重罪の2 カウント及び国際的な親の逃亡者 を助け, そして扇動することの中央政府計算と2 人の息子誘拐し , 満たされる。日本の権限はであるずっと罪そこに要求し続けな い。(貯蔵されたコピー)

Before 2003

• International Marriages in Japan: Part Two – Impact of 17 October 2002 Supreme Court decision on International Marriages; J. Sean Curtin (Professor, Japanese Red Cross University);  October 28, 2002. The Supreme Court issued its first decision on the visa status of a non-Japanese spouse married to a Japanese citizen.  Over ruling the Osaka High Court, the Supreme Court said that a marriage must be viable and ongoing, and if the Japanese spouse commits a misdeed, such as infidelity to break up the marriage, the foreign spouse may legally be deprived of his or her spouse visa.  (cached copy)

• Lack of Enforcement Weakens Effect of Japan's Divorce Provisions; The International Herald Tribune; February 2, 2002.   Article with viewpoints by several lawyers in Japan. (cached copy)

• Estranged parents snatch own kids in `abduction friendly' Japan Asahi Shinbun Online; January 27, 2002 A good overview on the subject, with quotes from multiple victims of this crime as well as experts on related subjects. (cached copy)

• Japan PM’s divorce typical; Los Angeles Times; June 21, 2001. Summary of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's desertion of one son and preventing his ex-wife from seeing their other two sons. (cached copy)

• Gaijin dad deported to Pakistan ahead of trial date; United for a Multicultural Japan; Date : June 4, 2001.  A Press Release decrying the sudden and secret deportation of Ken Massey, who as a result, will not be able to proceed with his lawsuit against Japan Immigration for his detention, which was scheduled for a hearing in about six weeks.

• Father's plight raises immigration policy questions; Japan Times; March 17, 2001. Discusses detention of Ken Massey, a 17 year law abiding citizen of Japan with two Japanese children and the law suit he is planning against Japan Immigration. (cached copy)

• Parents driven to 'kidnap' children; The Japan Times; December 13, 2000.  Discusses Engle Nieman's case as well as David Brian Thomas.  (cached copy)

• Statement by Walter Benda, co-founder of CRC Japan, on March 1, 2000, to the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the similarity of the Elian Gonzalez case and his daughters who according to his statement are being "illegally retained in Japan." (cached copy)

• The best parents are both parents; Japan Times; February 6, 2000.  David Brian Thomas' story in detail. (cached copy)

• Parents in International Custody Battles Fear Impact; Washington Post; February 3, 2000.  Information on various worldwide parental abduction cases in the light of the Elian Gonzalez incident in the US. Included is Walter Benda's well known Japan case.   (cached copy)

• International Parental Child Abduction - Japan; US State Department document explaining the dangers of parental abduction and other family law problems in Japan.  Has also appeared on the US embassy in Japan website.

• Japanese Family Law - or The Lack Thereof!; Jeremy D. Morley; date unknown.  Written by an international divorce lawyer, this is a good overview of many of the difficult issues in Japan for foreigners who want to get custody or visit their Japanese child, whether he was abducted there or is legally residing in Japan. (cached copy)

• Access Denied Children innocent victims of custody battles; Daily Yomiuri; December 11, 1999.   An article with several cases of Japanese parents being denied access by other Japanese parents.  Same story of using the children as weapons. (cached copy)

• Thai in immigration row won't return for mom's funeral; Asian Political News; January 4, 1999.  Osaka High Court allows Peancai Midchid to stay in Japan after husband's affair causes them to live apart and Immigration to reject her application for a spouse visa.  This was later overturned by Supreme Court.  (cached copy)

• Lost In A Loophole: Foreigners Who Are on the Losing End of a Custody Battle in Japan Don't Have Much Recourse; Los Angeles Times, September 19, 1996.  Stories of Walter Benda, David Brian Thomas, Dale Martin and Charles Talley.  Describes how lack of a "parent of Japanese child" visa gives an abducting spouse power, how a hanko can be used for forgery, and quotes a Japanese Foreign Ministry official on why Japan does not need to sign the Hague Convention on International Parental Abduction.

• The Japanese said I no longer had a child; The Independent, July 10, 1996. Very detailed story about David Brian Thomas's loss of his son to his Japanese spouse Mikako Takezawa and her father Hajime Takezawa. (cached copy)