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challenges with the kids you can do full assaults to leads to one parent losing contact with the kids that i see. but to see it got so they don't know cutting by the name of us is, is a lot there are i was going to jump to use usually ground sole custody to whoever was well, physically was a child, which critics say encourages parents to adopt that kid came back to the jazz and quickly realized that that was, it might, might, might just have been taken. now the country is changing a little too without just used to impose joint custody. i just want to have that
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relationship with 4 people. but this opposition, including from survivors of domestic violence. there wasn't a single muscle to them. i know most of helpline, so don't get tonight. 101 east investigates japan's parental child abductions. the, this is a road is zooming. who knows what she travels it several times and it's a journey by desperation. a bully, a funny to to let you guys say,
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i'm not assuming he hasn't spoken to a son and 2 daughters for 7 years notes and she says this father abducted the for the for the what, pressing out sort of the kind of data you click on the left, so click the button to ship the room were you interested in for me know that the tube in child custody is always a sad process, but most so it seems in japan when more than a 100000 children lose contact with the parents every year to assume he lives in a modest one bedroom ground floor, a pop and in chiva about 50 kilometers from tokyo. she just manages to
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support herself by selling insurance in the civil what, what the state of florida. and i noticed you don't get through because you'll be sure to make sure what those fit kind of fix it. you know how to get a hold on it. so give me a couple of tell us any i don't i think up to date when i see a judge suggested that she and her children could send each other 6. that is a year the that's the extent of that contact. you told me that i hit one, which i think okay, the secrets. ok. they didn't look i can look at it and they cut off the land and they say on monday crunched it went up to the next day as well as it seemed gestures. she's also received abusive messages from the children, quoting this cupid, and tending it
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a go to hell for you or full. so what that is, you on the cost of the, for the show, good. that, you know, got all the good thing. so it is okay. don't look the call you hold on, i don't see it go through the night it when i drove to find me either one of them. can she find it when it will be decided to leave her husband, it became a race to get the children. initially, they were with her buck within full months, they were living with a husband and a judge rules. that's where they should stay. finding that as a children's father he hadn't kidnapped them. i know i'm not so long to have someone else. i did not know what to say. i thought the night that you've seen the feel still has the shift your service. you had some new i 9 unique oh wow.
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one type on shore since the for the one i hated the ocean just did. did look at the got it twice as me has off the quote to ground, to physical access to her children. both times it was denied. the petition is on going to it, isn't it in the lineup in what it's called the that's the was it the i think the shinji jima has also lost out in japan schools. it's been paid years since he last saw his son pop. the sole custody was prompted to his ex wife the full, the books almost as not to use his real name. child custody disputes are
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a sensitive issue in japan for 6 months t. so is young. some once or twice a month, but then everything changed. like i wasn't good, a full scale more like you know, that kind of that's got the i wanted to talk to you a little bit to the done the. the see says this video boy pleads to stay with shinji when his mother comes to collective the a month later, shinji says he did what any father would do. he didn't return his son. his wife took him to cold, but the video had the opposite effect. yeah, lets as in the, in the me that was
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the last time father and son. so each of that was when shinji was arrested last meeting at 90 my state. no, i continued to do an open invitation for ya talk during my stay where you didn't have any opening up the upload and then have it going to the other thing or what those i to get. the tire was done to get them all he was who the 3 mean, so this police station sharing a cell with other main let's go down to tennessee or something. it's just a couple of miles away. and as i said, it was wonderful, you know, frustrated by so cool, that sounds like
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a more the facing to give me light that came up on the so presumably, and i see the manual thing is it's kind of stuff that's a good question. shinji says he was only released up to pleading guilty to kidnapping his son to the mobiles in the service and more or less the more was a lot easier. so you want to just say that a little guy says answering them why they want. i and i told them to the fees now remarried and has 2 children. both are kind of a high level. that is, a roommate that are more will be out of the room, looked at what about the medical demo that anymore. give me that senior. okay. when you start getting the site don't we must a my email the more when he's on heck,
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right. that doing it to me it's not just japanese parents who being fighting to the country so custody little but for those to some of them are at this gathering of so called best behind parents who being denied the right to see the children and dr. growing international pressure on may, the 17th 2024, japan's parliament changed a little, allowing the code to impose joint custody if it's deemed in the best interests of the child. so the party must minimize any other needs. so do you believe you'll see your child again?
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you can see that those and do you still have faith in japan's justice system? since the frenchman vincent v show has been at the forefront of the left behind parents campaign. it's called the form of finance. here is high flying career p law. so his 2 children in august 2018 at the start of what he thought would be just another day on friday, 10th, 2008. and i came back from work and the house was empty. some thoughts or feelings and i quickly realized that that was, it might, might, and my kids had been taken and i tried getting ahold of my wife and she would and she would have replied and then i went to, um, i went to the mailbox and i got a letter from her lawyer saying that my, my kids were taken, that i should not expect to see them again. email,
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it's back home with his parents in the french city of miles say, returning to tokyo with every can. when he last saw his children, they would just instance it's tough because you know what i mean. so if you all could then uh could just provide them the straights um with that and i wouldn't even recognize them. the hardest part is not knowing how they looked like is, is not knowing how they are they all, it's all healthy. it's all happy and even if they need anything. so this is very difficult to, to, to handle it to be. frank vincent has resulted to desperate measures during the 2012 due on tokyo and in fix. he went on hunger strike for 20 days, losing 14 kilos. 3 years on he refuses to give up on his children. do you think you'll ever see them again?
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of course, because that i wouldn't be fighting if there was no hopes. but i think it's going to take them out of 10 to 15 years. he's now one is his lawyer having already spent over $300000.00 on legal fees. i key right away. no says the change to the law is superficial, but concedes it's his clients only have to have home phone guy cycle timeline. so they're small. i don't know, i don't hire me for some of the pilots thinking are also not getting off on the not that i see 40 to investigate with it. so then i'll get into the night. i'm with a few rough was it left behind parent himself. he knows to well how difficult it is to in custody cases when the other parent has taken the children. how many cases have you taken on? and the best thing being was supposed to have done. why have gainesville and how
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many of you one, a cost dental uh uh it can douglas demo somebody mall so noble folks on the beat was that they'll kill for those i buy. so there's pretty guys out there. vincent says, unless the new law is properly enforced, it's destined to fail. below is not gonna change much, i guess for me no more thing that is going to bring change for the next generation of children. but really it won't change anything to me. and the reason i'm saying that is the issue is not the low and drip on the it's front of the root of light. as it is a means case, a judge ruled they've been since children with mealy taken away and not kidnapped. it's a way for the japanese system to circumvent an international and, and even jump and subjugation to wisconsin abduction because they don't call each
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and abduction precise. so if you go to the police, it will be fuse you to choose that to. and when i was in court, many times i was during the judge that my children had been abducted and i was threatened to be escorted out of the room. and i kept on using that word. japan's government has consistently claimed its compliant with international law. the. this is the family called with a face that so many children in japan is decided it's under the control of the justice ministry with officials declined our request for an interview. the so believe is of domestic violence, of being among the most vocal critics of custody reforms. they want the new legislation scrapped because they fit it could expose them and their children to
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danger the the this mother agreed to speak with one or one east of her lawyer as office as long as we didn't identify her model. yeah. ok, so call your bank. so starting with the surgical and all of that and i don't, yeah, lots of stick with them. and i got to she says she left the relationship of 2 years of verbal and economic abuse and co us of control. she and her daughter, i've had no contact with the for my husband since 2010 a. there was an old muscle to come up. i know what to paul blunt, told ellison, i guess. i know you guys have openness children each day. you know that the cool. yeah, a lot of social studies, but most how are you? good in volume up, vertical food, they took off city japan,
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steegal systems as being adults with its reputation as one of the world's most developed countries. it's part of the g 7. i didn't think it will be nation. but until now japan was the only man that nope. so deeply recognized the joint custody allies including australia, germany, and this elite of posted travel advisories. holding up the thread of parental child abductions. this is supposed to bring japan in line with most of the world, but no one it seems, is happy. parents separated from the children, say it doesn't go far enough. and victims of domestic violence say it could one small expose them to danger. and then as the voices of the children, one of them is now a young adult has agreed to talk to us the
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city. so matt was born in america would have spent 3 quarters of his life in japan . his japanese mother brought him here when he was 7 anthony heights, adrian brown. he says she, they to told him that his father was insane at school. he felt different. and that's time. i think that makes various people. it's not that common was not that common in japan. my background was from a totally different culture from japan. so i stood up. i felt absolutely lonely because most family it has both parents and they have a happy life there. but for me, i just have my mother and my grandparents and also on my father so much. so i really missed him. his classmates, clothing guys in the japanese wood for outside to he says he spoke to be installed
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or a few times on the phone before his mother tobate's to the contract. so the last time in my father was when i was 11 or 12 years old. my mother had an explain the doubt much about why i came to japan and that was a big question for me. and i always wanted to know why i can see my father looking for on says he began to search to find his father. he eventually discovered him on facebook, living in texas in 2023. and so we went back to meet him. well, i think most people imagine like a really emotional meeting by hugging each other. but actually it wasn't felt
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like that they hadn't spoken for 11 years. he says at 1st the reunion was oakwood. we are father and son, but we need to the opportunity to to build the relationship. so i guess that i have to ask as a son and my father has to also add to add as a father, but he doesn't know how to the leasing with his father was a month come for us to the one. do you have with his mother when he returned? and i thought very upset because there were so many stories that i heard. so we had a pretty big fight. his mother has now cut off contact with him to
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hold out hope that there can be a reconciliation. i really hope so. i just love both parents. so if i take my mother lose my father, if i take my father, i know there's no i just don't want that. i just want to have a relationship with both people. you don't want to take sides. yeah. i don't want to take sides. i don't how does that? he says his childhood left him with low self esteem. he welcomes the change to below. and i think it is a really good change. i believe that every children has the right to build a relationship with both parents. that means that adults to support the children's opinions. if i had to spend more time with my
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father, i'm sure that i was a more confidence to myself to accuse west suite a university as one of the country's most prestigious, no faculties. i've come here to meet professor must, so you can kind of more headaches. but in japanese families, the government sold his advice of the legal reform causal to that. and you'll see a little more about that. it's down to them 1st of to congregate the guardian and put them all zeroed up on what date on this one, what i'm going, you know, what i can do, you know, just it does over needed to but he's recommendation that the quote consider the child wishes was ignored, siri hung up the whole day. okay. got big enough. i don't know.
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he also feels judges have too much power in child custody cases. since or near harvest. i don't know how you doing the higher anymore should already know that a little. you also can or can also that's kind of ready to come. so they're gonna say bunk, i knew the hon dongle turn out to you from. oh, i don't know what the data still is. remote in the mess. i don't know how you doing it. discretion. well, is on it, see about it, or in this case, more the, the change to the law would be totally implemented until 2026. well, this is the bill or rather a photocopy of the bill. and as you can see, it's a pretty way to legal documents, lots of words about joint costs that a sole custody of calls watts in the best interest of the child. but there's one
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issue. this document doesn't address parental abduction. every one we spoke to has been to the government to the emotions and grief. dispatch 10, set the and only sides of this debate. there's agreement on one thing. japan justice system has made a bad situation. the mount fuji is a long way from the frenzy attempt to yes, it's one of japan's most enduring and powerful for follows of votes buddhism and should to isn't. it's regarded as a sacred, spiritual, and lucky place. in g tries to visit this temple in its shadow once
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a month. all the technical sales that they scott well, that's the learning. all right, i will tell you what the final thing for you when i get my stuff he's tried everything else. he says. so why not press all so when you're what's going on since i was more excited about this, i'm just going to know if i went to face on the
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