Found the website of the Japan Children’s Rights Network
The mission statement on the front of their website states, “Our Mission is to disseminate information to help change attitudes and laws in Japan in order to assure all children of direct, meaningful and continuing contact with both parents, regardless of citizenship, marital status or gender. We want to restore the rights of children in Japan with separated parents, such as in divorce, international parental abduction to Japan, parental kidnapping within Japan and birth out of wedlock.”
Whats this website all about?
There are a group of gaijin who have had children with a Japanese national and are now facing an uphill battle for their children. For whatever reason the relationship with their spouse goes south and what happens is the Japanese national takes the kids to Japan never to return. The gaijin parent loses access to the children, often the Japanese national poisons the child against their foreigner parent. With the help of their parents the Japanese national will try to cut all ties between the foreigner parent and the child. The foreigner has few legal options and is usually absolutely fucked.
This link leads to many personal accounts of this happening.
A common observation that is made is the Japanese will bitch and scream about having people abducted by North Korea but they let these international kidnappings go unchecked.
September 4th, 2009 at 6:33 am
“Whats this website all about?
There are a group of gaijin…”
Thank you so much for posting information regarding the Japan Children’s Rights Network on Japan News Today. The only way to change this travesty is to spread the word. In regards to your statement above, I must tell you that we are not just a group of gaijin. The issue of parental child abduction in Japan affects Japanese as well. In numbers there are thousands more cases where a japanese has lost his / her children due to the antiquated barbaric japanese system of “laws.” We are in hopes of changing the Japanese family law system for both Japanese, and non-japanese as well.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:57 am
[...] Middle Tennesee Man Has Children Kidnapped by Ex Japanese Wife Japan, Japan News NewsChannel5.com ran a story about a Japanese national that deliberately kidnapped two kids she had with Middle Tennessee man Christopher Savoie back to Japan. This woman Noriko Savoie knew Japan does not recognize family court orders from the United States and deliberately kidnapped the kids. There are many documented cases of this type of behavior and a whole website dedicated to the issue called JCRN - Japan Children’s Rights Network. [...]
February 5th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
[...] many documented cases of this type of behavior and a whole website dedicated to the issue called JCRN - Japan Children’s Rights Network. A video of the story can be seen by following the NewsChannel5.com link. The Christoper Savoie [...]