Japan Steals Children - Birthday Party at Japanese Embassy

Birthday Party for Melissa Braden at theJapanese Embassy, 2520 Mass. Ave., Washington D.C. 4-6-09 - Rep. Chris Smith (NJ), who helped pass H Res 125 joined parents of children abducted to Japan.

"From the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC, April of 2009 - Parents of American children who have been illegally abducted to Japan, gathered to continue to raise awareness of Japan's policy of supporting international child abductions by Japanese Nationals.

The Govt of Japan has had a policy of never enforcing, and refusing to acknowledge PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED U.S. Jurisdiction and U.S. Custody and visitation orders. Going as far back as 1951, Japan has developed a Government and Judicial policy of granting legal impunity and harboring Japanese Citizen fugitives from U.S.and foreign justice in Japan.

To quote US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her conversation with Hirofumi Nakasone (Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs) on March 31, 2009
"... in our increasingly mobile world today, more and more international parents of children will live separately", "...Japan needs to sign the Hague Treaty now"....Unfortunately, Nakasone only repeated the same old canned answer they have been giving for at least 16 YEARS NOW..."Japan is studying it's possibliity of participation" (in the Hague Convention Treaty on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction) . The US does not have this problem with any other country --ON THE PLANET !"

- H. Res. 125
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hr111-125
- CBS VIDEO - Melissa Braden - Japan
http://cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3030794n
- YouTube VIDEO - Melissa Braden - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ19RbqHdqE
- C-Span VIDEO - Goldman/H Res 125
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=8941660

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[markyoung12]

@TheStoryIsOver @TheStoryIsOver Japan steals children and so do human trafficking family court judge impostor/slavemasters in the U.S., for cash. Which is worse? At least Japan apparently protects "their own" so to speak, although they also tear the children apart as does this nation.

[ZhuSeth]

Maybe not have children with japanese mothers (or the other way around) in the first place? This seems like it was completely avoidable

[Tsnore]

But Japan needs more children! The low birthrate and all! Oh and not to mention the xenophobia and tribal mentality that'll take essence-Japanese humans over others, meaning half Japanese or third and fourth generation Japanese emigrants and those trapped in China of Korean abstraction. Japan remains a racially biased place that sees the book cover as the whole content and if you can prate in Nihongo all the better. I know I live in Edo - the heart of the unfriendly culture.

[kwbrow2]

I am fighting along side many Japanese fathers with the hopes that I (we) can see our children on a long term and meaningful basis. Foreign fathers also have trouble finding a place to rent. I have tried to rent several apartments in Japan. Sorry, the landlord doesn't rent to foreigners. Sorry you need a Japanese guarantor. It is not that easy to rent a place in Japan. The deck is stacked against all foreigners but I am sure you know that.

[kwbrow2]

Some of us have tried moving to the same town to be close to our kids. It doesn't work. If the ex-wife doesn't want us to see our kids then we can't. I was seeing my son once a month everything was going fine but since I wanted to see my son more than once a month and would not agree to a divorce my wife stopped visitation. No emails, no calls, no gifts for my son, nothing. This kind of thing happens all the time not only to non-Japanese but all Japanese fathers.

[MelissasFather]

The beginning of this video shows the Japanese Embassy security officer asking to photograph all of us for their files... in an attempt to intimidate us and probably block our travel to Japan...then Congressman Chris Smith hands the security officer his card. It was a windy cold evening...the lit candles and singing may be lacking some....Next Year we will do a little better if nothing changes between now and then.