Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!yrmfa-01p3-13.ppp11.odn.ad.JP!not-for-mail From: "Ryan Ginstrom" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Divorce BYJW & lose your kids Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:20:21 +0900 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <3ffb6421$0$3174$df066bcf@news.sexzilla.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: yrmfa-01p3-13.ppp11.odn.ad.jp (61.116.164.13) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1073470800 7312863 61.116.164.13 ([101276]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:9942 "Haluk Skywalker" wrote in message news:btgdhq$6pllu$1@ID-201738.news.uni-berlin.de... > "Ryan Ginstrom" , 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. -- Regards, Ryan Ginstrom