"Haluk Skywalker" <yokoolebiri@spam.net> wrote in message
news:btgdhq$6pllu$1@ID-201738.news.uni-berlin.de...
> "Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com>, iletide sunu yazdi
> > Or abduct them yourself first? Kind of like an abduction arms race.
> >
>
> That sounds OK, as abducting your own children is not a crime in Japanese
> law. I wonder what happens if you abduct them and take off to your
homeland?

I think there are rules about taking them outside the country without the
permission of the Japanese parent. The article said it had to do with some
old law about trafficking children. I don't know if that's it, but I have
heard about foreign parents getting detained at the airport for trying to
leave the country with (half-Japanese) sprog in tow.

> I lived there 4 years and didn't know it. So I can relate to it. I guess
one
> does not think about bad scenarios while everything is -or seems to be,
OK.

True, but this story seems to be making the rounds every couple of years.
Maybe it's because journalists are recycling their material, or maybe
because a newly stationed journalist is learning all this stuff for the
first time.

At any rate, I've already seen stories similar to this one a couple of
times, and even if I hadn't, most people with reasonably large circle of
Japanese friends, or even people who watch "The Judge," should have picked
up tidbits like this one already.

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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom