mr.sumo.snr <llanelli14NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:

> You mentioned about her threatening to return to Japan and not granting you
> visitation rights.  This is very likely and has been discussed in depth on
> another thread recently - but basically you have zero rights as a gaijin
> father of Japanese children.

Rights?  None that are enforced, which is the same.
 
> Where were your children born - where are their births registered?  If they
> have Japanese passports I'd be hiding them somewhere - like a safe deposit
> box.  If they're American citizens then I assume if your wife took the
> children to Japan then that would be kidnapping.  But whatever - I'd be very
> careful about the fleeing threat.

To the original poster:

You need to be careful about this, and the first thing would be to keep
your childrens passports safe, in a safe deposit box where it is clearly
understood by the bank that you and only you have access.  This may be
important in a community property state.  Your wife won't be able to
take the children out of the country via airplane without passports
unless she goes to someplace like Mexico which only requires birth
certificates.  Of course, she could drive to Canada or Mexico without
needing passports.

Please take a look at the following link, it has a lot of useful
information:

http://travel.state.gov/int'lchildabduction.html

Best of luck, and let us know how it turns out.  I recommend getting
help from family services, it sounds like things have already gone too
far.

-- 
Matt
matt@gol.com