{"id":14937,"date":"2018-03-29T16:53:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T02:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14937"},"modified":"2018-03-30T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T19:48:47","slug":"japan-supreme-court-enforces-hague-convention-for-japanese-intl-claimants-and-still-overt-racism-persists-against-nj-parents-on-japans-sakura-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14937","title":{"rendered":"Japan Supreme Court enforces Hague Convention on Int’l Child Abductions (for Japanese claimants). Yet Sakura TV claims Hague is for “selfish White men” trying to entrap women from “uncivilized countries” as “babysitters”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. We had an important Supreme Court ruling come down earlier this month, where an international custody dispute between two Japanese divorcees living in different countries resulted in the custodial parent overseas being awarded custody of the child, as per the Hague Convention on International Child Abductions<\/a>. (See Japan Times article excerpt below.)<\/p>\n

Debito.org<\/a> has commented<\/a> at length on this issue (and I have even written a novel<\/a>\u00a0based upon true stories of\u00a0Japan’s safe haven for international child abductions<\/a>). Part of the issue is that due to the insanity<\/a> of Japan’s Family Registry<\/a> (koseki) System, after a divorce only ONE parent (as in, one family) gets total custody of the child<\/a>, with no joint custody<\/a> or legally-guaranteed visitation rights<\/a>. This happens<\/a> to EVERYONE<\/a> who marries, has children, and divorces in Japan (regardless of nationality).<\/p>\n

But what makes this Supreme Court decision somewhat inapplicable to anyone but Wajin Japanese is the fact that other custody issues<\/a> under the Hague<\/a> (which Japan only signed kicking and screaming, and with enough caveats to lead to probable nonenforcement<\/a>), which\u00a0involved NON-Japanese<\/a> parents,\u00a0faced<\/a> a great deal<\/a> of racism<\/a> and propaganda<\/a>, even from the Japanese government<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As evidence, consider this TV segment (with English subtitles) on Japan’s ultraconservative (PM Abe Shinzo is a frequent contributor<\/a>) Sakura Channel TV<\/a> network (firmly established with the “present Japan positively<\/a>\u00a0no matter what” NHK World network<\/a>). \u00a0It contains enough bald-facedly anti-foreign hypotheticals (including the requisite stereotype that foreign men are violent, and Japanese women are trying to escape DV) to inspire entire sociological articles, and the incredible claim that Japan’s court system is just appeasing White people and forcing a “selfish” alien system upon Japan.<\/p>\n