181,470 Children Abducted in Japan Each Year!?

THE CRC OF JAPAN ESTIMATES CUMULATIVE CASES OF INTERNATIONALLY ABDUCTED CHILDREN IN JAPAN TO NUMBER IN THE THOUSANDS--

The Japan Times Herald is doing a series on international abducted children (japantherald.blogspot.com) but this seems to be just the tip of the iceberg.

If the CRC (crcjapan.com) report is to be believed, it seems that child abduction is a time honored tradition in Japan.

In the JTH article of July 24, Cmdr. Paul Toland, USN stated "... the State Department's Japan Desk explained to me that ... the Japan Child Abduction issue had been on Deputy Secretary Steinberg's agenda ..."

Of course it was, you just missed the double speak irony: the Japan Child Abduction (by North Korea) issue was on his schedule.

If this issue is to be solved, the foriegn victims of abduction must unite with the overwhelming number of native victims. If Japan were to recognize the foriegn victims, the native Japanese victims would scream, "what about us?" THAT would cause a natonal dilemma.

This is NOT a can of worms they want to open.
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