On Oct 1, 11:18 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The 2-Belo wrote:
> > As it turns out, the guy was naturalized!
>
> >http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/30/japan.savoie.children...
>
> Give me an "Oy vey!"
>


"Oy vey!"

This case is causing an uproar all up and down the internets.  Debito
has picked it up
as well, of course, and JapanToday.com is going nuts in the comment
section.

I have lost track of who to side with on this matter.  On the one
hand, the ex-wife taking
the kids is wrong.  On the other, him having Japanese citizenship from
4 years ago but
divorcing and quickly remarrying in Tennessee is a bit scummy as
well.  Again, not really
enough "facts" to make a decision yet.

If he was granted a divorce overseas, I think that is supposed to
count.  However, it looks
very much like the Japanese government wants to pull an Alberto
Fujimori on it and say that
since he has Japanese citizenship, the overseas divorce doesn't
count.  That way they
can claim it as a domestic incident and not a shining example of why
Japan should sign
the Hague Convention.

But they are also trying to have it both ways if they are keeping him
locked up for child
abduction.  If he is Japanese (paper or otherwise) and still married,
he can't be accused
of kidnapping his own kids and shouldn't be locked up.

An accurate timeline would be helpful.  If he naturalised 4 years ago,
he was obviously
living here for an extended period.  Likely, his children were born in
Japan.  Likely they
have US citizenship as well but that hasn't been confirmed.

Royal clusterfuck all the way around.

Let's get another "Oy vey!"