Japan child abduction
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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May 5, 2010 RE: CONGRESS URGES JAPAN TO RETURN KIDNAPPED AMERICAN CITIZEN CHILDREN BACK TO THE U.S. U.S. Representatives Jim Moran (D-VA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) are introducing a Resolution and held a press conference on May 5th 2010 at 1:30 p.m. at the US Capitol to urge Japan to return kidnapped American citizen children to the United States. This is House Resolution 1326. Congressman Xavier Becerra, who is Melissa Braden’s US...
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By Timothy W. Maier As the nation awaited the outcome of the presidential election, the hundreds of cases of international parental kidnappings once again were placed on the back burner – but perhaps not for long. Should Texas Gov. George W. Bush become president, there would be a candle of hope for thousands of parents longing to be reunited with their children. They know that the Bush campaign gave a sympathetic hearing to this...
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By the Ambassadors of Australia, Canada, France, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States in Tokyo, Japan We, the Ambassadors to Japan of Australia, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, the Charges d’Affaires a.i. of Canada and Spain and the Deputy Head of Mission of Italy, called on Japan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs today to submit our concerns over the increase of international...
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By COLIN P. A. JONES First in a two-part series Last year was an important one for child custody issues in Japan, with growing international pressure on Japan to sign the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, and the dramatic arrest of Christopher Savoie in September for supposedly “kidnapping” his own kids in Fukuoka. I was actually interviewed for a segment on MSNBC’s “Today Show” in connection with the Savoie case....
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In many cases, parents abduct their own children when marriages fail and return home where local laws protect them. In some cases the abducted children never see the other parent again. Child abduction is one of a parent’s worst fears, and for a growing number of parents around the world, this fear is being realized and compounded by international custody disputes. In many cases, parents abduct their own children when marriages fail and...
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