American arrested in Japan for kidnapping own kids from ex-wife

[bluefrog]

If you look at the article, you'll notice that the family moved back to the US and almost immediately the divorce proceedings began.



It seemed he moved the family back just to get divorced...why? then he got immediately remarried?

I'm putting my money on this guy being an asshole. He had his woman on the side here, took the japanese chick here under false pretenses only to get the kids on US soil and to try to get custody of them with an immediate divorce and then marry the new chick. Only reason she did not get custody was because she did not appear in court in a seemingly meaningless custody and divorce proceeding.

She apparently did the same thing after she abducted the kids and fled to Japan. She filed an annulment of their marriage and for custody of the kids.

 

[bluefrog]

Who is he, Jack Baeur.

It was a ballsy move and I admire him for it. He probably did watch too much 24 though.

 

[MARIS61]

I would simply move next door to her.

Problem solved.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I learned something interesting from that CNN article:



So, when you get divorced in Japan, you get divorced from your entire family? That to me seems bizarre. I wonder where that particular cultural norm came from in Japanese society?

Maybe that explains why their divorce rate is almost 1/2 of what ours is.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

She apparently did the same thing after she abducted the kids and fled to Japan. She filed an annulment of their marriage and for custody of the kids.

She did not abduct the children.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

I would simply move next door to her.

Problem solved.

yeah, but he wants to live in America now with his new wife and his children who lived their entire lives except the last year in japan.

so kidnap away!

 

[bluefrog]

She did not abduct the children.

Maybe SHE watched too much 24...

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

doubt it, she spent most of the last decade living in Japan so it probably wasn't on. she was only moved to this country so her husband can attempt to take the kids using the US legal system.