Australian father gets suspended term for trespassing at in-law’s Tokyo home
A Tokyo-based Australian journalist and father was given a suspended prison term of six months by the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday for illegally trespassing into a building complex where his in-laws live in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward in October, in what the journalist said was an attempt to check on his children after a powerful […]
European lawmakers chide Japan over abduction of children by a parent
BRUSSELS – European lawmakers lobbied by fathers unable to see children taken by Japanese mothers urged Tokyo on Tuesday to combat the abduction of minors by one parent and change a law that does not recognize joint custody after a split. In a resolution passed unanimously, the European Parliament’s petitions committee said it was concerned about […]
Hague jars with Japan’s family law, a zero-sum game with only one outcome
On April 1, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction went into force in Japan, as did the necessary implementing legislation. Having already written about this legislation in a prior column, I won’t revisit the subject here. While Japan’s accession is a welcome step forward, I wonder how it will actually pan […]
In Japan, foreign parents lead charge against loss of child custody
A growing number of foreign nationals in Japan are speaking out against what they say is a little-known but entrenched system that allows one parent in a broken relationship to take away children and block the other from visiting them. The issue of what domestic and overseas media call parental child “abduction” has regained international […]
Shun Fujiki – Child Abduction issue – 38th UN Human Rights Council Meeting General Debate Item3
Shunichi Fujiki a director of International Career Support Association addressed the issue of “Parental Child Abduction and Parental Custody which is seriously violating the human rights of Children at the 38th UN Human rights Council Meeting on 25th of June 2018.
会見「夫婦間の子どもの『連れ去り』を巡る問題」
Ueno, Odagiri, Perina & Fichot: Japan’s Child Abduction Issue
Akira Ueno: Lawyer, Nihonbashi Sakura Law Firm / Noriko Odagiri: Professor of Clinical Psychology, Tokyo International University / Tommaso Perina: an Italian Father / Vincent Fichot: a French Father
Enfants Franco-Japonais au centre d’un conflit parental
Table ronde Enfants Franco-Japonais au centre d’un conflit parental Où en est-on cinq ans après la ratification de la convention de La Haye?
Please share! Today it’s Children’s Day in Japan. We call it Kidnapped Children’s Day.
5/5 is Children’s Day in Japan. But not for some parents… Please watch and share! For more information: www.japanchildrenrights.org
True facts on why Europe and the US don’t trust Japan anymore
Every year, 150,000 children are kidnapped in Japan with the full support of the Japanese authorities. That means one parent decides to take the children without the consent of his/her spouse, and to leave. However surprising this may sound, in the Japanese Parliament politicians are discussing about this problem on a daily basis, mentioning that […]