navy captain paul tolland filed a lawsuit challenges the basis of this reality. he asked for what u.s. courts would consider a natural human right. that the sole surviving parent after a divorce and death of a spouse be granted physical custody of his child. right now, the child is with a grandparent who refuses to let him have any and all access to his daughter. the premise of the lawsuit that a biological parent has a fundamental right to his or own child has made national headlines in japan. why? as several japanese experts state in the japanese press and i quote, this case brings to light the stark cultural defenses between japanese and u.s. culture and laws concerning fundamental parental rights. again, japan simply does not recognize that parents like me, like paul tolland, like so many others have any right what is so far to parent our children. now, in addition to the abduction cases that are cases the state department refuses to you'll mystically as access cases. they're cases like mine which because our kids were abducted before the hague convention, ja

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again, japan simply does not recognize that parents like me like paul tolland, like so many others have any right what is so far to parent our children. now, in addition to the abduction cases that are cases the state department refuses to you'll mystically as access cases. they're cases like mine which because our kids were abduct brd the hague convention japan james it be forced to return them under the hague treaty. even in this cases the hague convention requires that the authority remove all obstacles to visitation with our children. all obstacles. in an e-mail dated june 3rd 2015, my caseworker told my attorney that the jca claims it is not their responsibility to facilitate a visitation agreement about my access to my children. so my case thanks to the state department's unwillingness or unable to advocate on my behalf remains in a catch-22. the only thing responsible for facilitating access and removing all obstacles to hague-mandated access is the only one through which my ex-wife will communicate and is claiming that it is not responsible for hague mandated access. and in fact

people like the justice minister who in direct response to captain tolland's case was quoted in the newspaper saying that child custody should be based on the child's best interest and not just on who has been raising the child following an abduction. people like the japanese minister who stated that parental abduction should be regards as child abuse. their abductors are not fit to be child custodians. people like chief justice tarota of the japanese supreme court who stated publicly there's increased scrutiny of these cases due to the signing of the hague and that it is the japanese responsibility of the court by restating the real affairs of japan in international trends and custody laws. these reformers understand just how behind japan really is. why is the state department still covering up for japan? at the end of the day, what we all need to do here is acknowledge where the problem is coming from. there's a massive elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about. the elephant in the radio is the inherent interest for abduction cases. as they see it, to maintain good strategic rela