Comments on: What’s right and wrong with divorce in Japan

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:12:41 +0000

“if you had chldren, and had them taken away by a Japanese citizen, I doubt you would be so stupid as to marry any Japanese citizen again”

That logic contains very little wisdom, m.

By: m

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:01:07 +0000

If you had the experience of having children, and then experienced having them abducted, you would lose your odjectivity and gain some wisdom instead.
Wisdom beats objectivity anyday for giving good life-advice.
Also, if you had chldren, and had them taken away by a Japanese citizen, I doubt you would be so stupid as to marry any Japanese citizen again.
Without having had your own chldren, and knowing the depth and intensity of the love a healthy parent experiences for that child, you simply have no idea what you are talking about. If you read a book about giving birth, it doesn’t mean you understand the experience a bearing chldren.

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:51:03 +0000

There’s an icon saying it’s premium content, but I don’t have an account and I’m seeing the post fine.

By: Jade Oc

Jade Oc — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:25:57 +0000

Okay, found it, thanks.
Blimey, the Akita International University thread is still active. Shit, do full profs there get 12 million? That’s more than they got at my (national) university. This is funny: “kenkyu s***su”

Oh, interesting about Germany too. Always useful to get a different perspective.

By: M-Bone

M-Bone — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:09:08 +0000

Don’t know what happened there as I just linked to a forum post! It is the German one near the top of “Working Overseas” at http://www.chronicle.com.

By: Jade Oc

Jade Oc — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:56:27 +0000

That’s Premium Content and not accessible.
Which is odd – the CHE forums never used to be Premium Content….

By: Roy Berman

Roy Berman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:10:06 +0000

I had no idea either, and it sounds terrible. It reminds me of the recent case in which a US judge was found to be sentencing juveniles to long sentences in private run youth prisons in exchange for bribes – a scam that I can’t help but think of as a slavery ring.

By: M-Bone

M-Bone — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:23:09 +0000

http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,63149.0.html

Totally outside of the context of the Japan discussion, I had no idea that anything like the German story in this link was going on.

By: IGOTCHU

IGOTCHU — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:15:12 +0000

I’ve drafted a set of five (5)statutes concerning enforcement of Parental Rights, if the readers here could help me by questioning any of the statutes, offering suggestions, and any intellectual thoughts you have please do so on this board and others where I will post it. My intent is to give a final version to the Ministry of Justice on behalf of Left-Behind Parents. Without a strong enforcement mechanism I’m afraid Japan will evade its responsibility although it signs the Hague.

Enforcement Mechanism

Should a non-custodial parent be unlawfully denied contact with his/her child by the custodian or guardian of the child the non-custodial parent may request the Family Court to put him/her back in contact with the child.

When a non-custodial parent has been unlawfully denied contact to his/her child the Family Court shall, without delay, take the necessary actions to immediately put the bereaved parent back in contact with his/her child.

The Family Court shall restore the bereaved parents contact with the child within seven (7) days. The term contact means physical contact.

Should the Family Court not be able to restore the bereaved parents contact with the child within fourteen (14) days a warrant will be issued for the child and the person holding the child, the custodian or guardian of the child, and anyone involved in obstructing contact with the child.

Upon issuance of a warrant the custodial parent or guardian of the child will have his/her rights of custody to the child automatically transferred to the bereaved parent.

By: Jade Oc

Jade Oc — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:11:04 +0000

“NOBODY SHOULD GET MARRIED UNDER THE CURRENT MARRIAGE LAWS AND FAMILY REGISTRATION SYSTEM IN JAPAN.
NOT JAPANESE. NOT NON-JAPANESE. NOT ANYONE.”

Correction:

NOBODY SHOULD GET MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN UNDER THE CURRENT MARRIAGE LAWS AND FAMILY REGISTRATION SYSTEM IN JAPAN.
NOT JAPANESE. NOT NON-JAPANESE. NOT ANYONE.

And isn’t that actually what is happening with declining birth rates….?