Dear Lili,
I missed you again yesterday on Children’s Day. Someday I hope you will come to realize who your father really is and how much he loves you, and always has. When we were separated, a big piece of my heart was torn out. I will continue to hope that you remember the happy times we shared together and that one day you will come knocking at my door. Until then
You are always in my heart.
Love always,
Your Dad XOXOXOX
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Several months ago I made a bet with a friend about how the Hague Convention on international child abduction will be applied after Japan finishes implementing it through domestic legislation. My bet was this: If a Japanese court ever does order the return of a child wrongfully brought or retained here, the first case will be one in which both parents are non-Japanese. Needless to say, I hope to lose.
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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120221zg.html
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Daddy XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
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Colin P.A. Jones
Professor, Doshisha University Law School
Professor Colin P.A. Jones
(Photo by Shinchosha)
Introduction
Japan has developed a growing reputation as a haven for international parental child abduction. Major media outlets in the United States and other countries have brought attention to a number of recent cases of children being unilaterally removed by a Japanese parent from the United States before or after divorce, often in violation of American law and court orders.
Attempts to achieve the return of children taken to Japan through the Japanese legal system tend to be unsuccessful. As a result, some children who were born and raised in the United States have lost all contact with an American parent and other relatives, American friends, and the American part of their heritage as a consequence. The apparent lack of legal remedies for abduction in Japan is due to a number of factors that are discussed in more detail below.
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http://amview.japan.usembassy.gov/e/amview-e20120201-02.html
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Your Dad loves you with all his heart. Always has. Always will.
Your Dad never abandoned you.
Your Dad would be in your life if he could be.
Your Dad tried very hard to be a part of your life.
Your Dad fought for you in court and through his government.
Your Dad misses you every day.
Your Dad cherishes every moment he got to spend with you.
Your Dad is not the person you may have come to believe he is.
Your Dad has his faults, like everybody else, but he’s basically a good guy.
Your Dad will always be there for you should you decide to come around someday.
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Dear Lili,
I had a dream about you last night. I was down in Florida at Nonnie and Poppie’s house. In the dream, they were still alive and we were having a family get-together. Then the phone rang and Nonnie said it was you! I picked up the phone and talked with you for the first time in over seven years. You told me that it was good for families to be together at holiday time. I asked you if you remembered coming to Florida and going to Disney World with me, and you said you did. In your voice I could hear that you wanted to see your Daddy again.
But then I woke up and realized that it was all a dream. I’ve had that kind of dream before where you and I are family again, but upon awakening I discover of course that it wasn’t real. These are what I call the “Good Dreams Gone Bad”. And when they happen I always wake up with tears in my eyes.
I miss you so much, bubby. I wish you could look into my heart and see just how much I love you.
You’re always in my heart.
Daddy
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Dearest Lili,
Happy New Year 2012! 明けましておめでとうございます｡
I’m thinking about you always and wishing that 2012 is the year when the two of us will be reunited again, as a father and daughter ought to be.
You are always in my heart.
Love always,
Daddy XOXOXOXOXOXOX
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