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Hi Blog. \u00a0The latest in a series of tragedies through child abductions by Japanese because Japan’s laws and Family Court do not prevent them (more at crnjapan.net<\/a>): \u00a0The tragedy is clearly not only that of children being deprived of a parent. \u00a0On November 19, a Left-Behind Parent deprived himself of his life. \u00a0As reports the French Embassy in French and Japanese on November 24. \u00a0English translation first, then official texts from the Embassy.<\/p>\n

We’ve had government after government denouncing this practice<\/a>, GOJ, as the French Embassy puts it so eruditely below. \u00a0How much longer must it go on? \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

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35 Year – old French Father kills self after loss of children in Japan.
\nAmbassade de France au Japon, November 24, 2010<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.ambafrance-jp.org\/<\/a>
\nTranslation to English, courtesy of crnjapan.net
\nhttp:\/\/crnjapan.net\/The_Japan_Childrens_Rights_Network\/itn-fdksij.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Our compatriot Arnaud Simon killed himself Friday, November 19. The French teacher in Tokyo, he was 35 years old and lived in Japan since 2006.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Separated from his wife since last March, he was the father of a boy of 20 months he had sought unsuccessfully to gain custody. Our community is in mourning and I present on behalf of all our condolences to his family and loved ones.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nobody can speak with certainty about the reasons why a man so young to commit an act so terrible. Mr. Simon, however, had recently expressed to the consular section of our embassy in Tokyo of its difficulties to meet his son and it is very likely that the separation from her child was a determining factor. This reminds us all if need be suffering fathers of the 32 French and two hundred other cases identified by consular authorities as being deprived of because of their parental rights.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is clear that our words and deeds are little face a dramatic situation, but I wanted to remind the determined action of the French authorities and the Embassy in connection with its German partners, American, Australian, Belgian, British, Canadian, Colombian, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian and New Zealand calling on Japan to ratify the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and expedite a review of individual records to find appropriate solutions where they are possible, depending on circumstances.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is the interests of children, that nobody has the right to deprive one of their parents. It is also to take into account the suffering of the fathers we have today is a tragic event.<\/em><\/strong>
\nENDS<\/p>\n

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ORIGINAL FRENCH
\nD\u00e9c\u00e8s de M. Arnaud Simon \u2013 Message de condol\u00e9ances de l\u2019Ambassadeur
\nAmbassade de France au Japon, 24 novembre 2010<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.ambafrance-jp.org\/spip.php?article4220<\/a><\/p>\n

Notre compatriote Arnaud Simon s\u2019est donn\u00e9 la mort vendredi 19 novembre. Enseignant le Fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 Tokyo, il \u00e9tait \u00e2g\u00e9 de 35 ans et vivait au Japon depuis 2006.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

S\u00e9par\u00e9 de sa femme depuis mars dernier, il \u00e9tait p\u00e8re d\u2019un petit gar\u00e7on de 20 mois dont il avait cherch\u00e9 en vain \u00e0 obtenir la garde. Notre communaut\u00e9 est en deuil et je pr\u00e9sente en son nom toutes nos condol\u00e9ances \u00e0 sa famille et \u00e0 ses proches.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Personne ne peut se prononcer avec certitude quant aux raisons qui ont pouss\u00e9 un homme aussi jeune \u00e0 commettre un geste aussi terrible. M. Simon avait toutefois fait part r\u00e9cemment \u00e0 la section consulaire de notre ambassade \u00e0 Tokyo des difficult\u00e9s qu\u2019il \u00e9prouvait pour rencontrer son fils et il est tr\u00e8s probable que la s\u00e9paration d\u2019avec son enfant a \u00e9t\u00e9 un des facteurs d\u00e9terminants. Ceci nous rappelle \u00e0 tous s\u2019il en \u00e9tait besoin la souffrance des 32 p\u00e8res fran\u00e7ais et des deux cents autres cas recens\u00e9s par les autorit\u00e9s consulaires comme \u00e9tant priv\u00e9s de fait de leurs droits parentaux.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Il est bien \u00e9vident que nos paroles et nos actes sont peu de choses face \u00e0 une situation aussi dramatique, mais je tenais \u00e0 rappeler l\u2019action d\u00e9termin\u00e9e des autorit\u00e9s fran\u00e7aises et de cette Ambassade en lien avec ses partenaires allemands, am\u00e9ricains, australiens, belges, britanniques, canadiens, colombiens, espagnols, hongrois, italiens et n\u00e9o-z\u00e9landais pour demander au Japon de ratifier la Convention de La Haye sur les aspects civils de l\u2019enl\u00e8vement international d\u2019enfants et proc\u00e9der rapidement \u00e0 un examen individuel des dossiers afin de trouver des solutions appropri\u00e9es l\u00e0 o\u00f9 elles sont possibles, en fonction des circonstances.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Il s\u2019agit de l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat des enfants, que personne n\u2019a le droit de priver de l\u2019un de leurs parents. Il s\u2019agit \u00e9galement de prendre en compte la souffrance des p\u00e8res dont nous avons aujourd\u2019hui une tragique manifestation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Service d\u2019Information et de Communication (24 novembre)
\n<\/strong> ENDS<\/p>\n

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The latest in a series of tragedies through child abductions by Japanese because Japan’s laws and Family Court do not prevent them (more at crnjapan.net): The tragedy is clearly not only that of children being deprived of a parent. On November 19, a Left-Behind Parent deprived himself of his life. As reports the French Embassy in French and Japanese on November 24. English translation first, then official texts from the Embassy. We’ve had government after government denouncing this practice, GOJ, as the French Embassy puts it so eruditely below. How much longer must it go on?<\/p>\n

French Embassy: Our compatriot Arnaud Simon killed himself Friday, November 19. The French teacher in Tokyo, he was 35 years old and lived in Japan since 2006.<\/p>\n

Separated from his wife since last March, he was the father of a boy of 20 months he had sought unsuccessfully to gain custody. Our community is in mourning and I present on behalf of all our condolences to his family and loved ones.<\/p>\n

Nobody can speak with certainty about the reasons why a man so young to commit an act so terrible. Mr. Simon, however, had recently expressed to the consular section of our embassy in Tokyo of its difficulties to meet his son and it is very likely that the separation from her child was a determining factor. This reminds us all if need be suffering fathers of the 32 French and two hundred other cases identified by consular authorities as being deprived of because of their parental rights.<\/p>\n

It is clear that our words and deeds are little face a dramatic situation, but I wanted to remind the determined action of the French authorities and the Embassy in connection with its German partners, American, Australian, Belgian, British, Canadian, Colombian, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian and New Zealand calling on Japan to ratify the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and expedite a review of individual records to find appropriate solutions where they are possible, depending on circumstances.<\/p>\n

It is the interests of children, that nobody has the right to deprive one of their parents. It is also to take into account the suffering of the fathers we have today is a tragic event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-abductions","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}