| Gunnar Daniel Berg |
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| LBP Name: Douglass Berg |
| Abduction Date: Aug 2009 |
| Last Contact: Aug 2009 |
| Kianna Joanna Berg |
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| LBP Name: Douglass Berg |
| Abduction Date: Aug 2009 |
| Last Contact: Aug 2009 |
| Erika Toland |
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| LBP Name: Paul Toland |
| Separation Date: Aug 2003 |
| Last Contact: Jul 2004 |
| Keisuke Collins |
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| LBP Name: Randy Collins |
| Abduction Date: Jun 2008 |
| Last Contact: Jun 2008 |
BACHome Press
Japan Condemned for Abducting American Children
Monday, September 27th, 2010- House vote scheduled for Tuesday Sept 28th 2010: H. Res. 1326 – Calling on the Government of Japan to address the issue of international child abduction.
- Sponsored by Representative James Moran (D) Virginia and 35 cosponsors (17 Democrats, 18 Republicans).
- The Government of Japan has never returned an abducted child in 58 years, making Japan a BLACK HOLE for child abduction since NO CHILD HAS EVER RETURNED.
- Bring Abducted Children Home (BACHome) was established in 2010 to educate the Dept of State, Congress, the media and the public, and to raise awareness of the plight of 300 U.S. citizen children kidnapped to (and wrongfully retained) in Japan
Read the entire phamplet H Res PR.
ShareResolution 1326 set for a full House vote September 28, 2010
Sunday, September 26th, 2010WASHINGTON – House Resolution 1326, condemning Japan for violating human rights in the matter of parentally abducted children is set to for a full House vote September 28, 2010.
After months of anticipation, US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Howard Berman (D-CA), has taken a great step for currently abducted American children, by putting H. Res. 1326 on the calendar for Tuesday, September 28, 2010.
Congressional representatives James Moran (D-VA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), have worked with a bipartisan coalition of thirty-five Democrats and Republicans to see H. Res. 1326 receive its well-deserved and needed vote this coming week. With mid-term elections only weeks away, having both parties set aside their differences for the good of all children abducted; it is hopeful that H. Res. 1326 will receive a unanimous vote of support in its favor.
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US Congress close to a vote on H. Res. 1326, condemning Japan for Child Abduction
Saturday, September 25th, 2010WASHINGTON – Several Left-Behind Parents of Bring Abducted Children Home (BACHome), began a 3 day push to bring a vote on House Resolution 1326 to the House floor before Congress recesses for further campaigning on October 1, 2010.
H. Res. 1326 condemns Japan over its blatant disregard for human rights in the matter of parentally abducted children. Since 1994, three-hundred United States citizens have been abducted to Japan from the United States. Japan has sanctioned the abductions and refused to recognize United States sovereignty over the abducted children.
ShareChristopher J. Savoie during introduction of H. Res. 1326
Monday, May 17th, 2010My name is Christopher Savoie and I am a father. I am the proud, doting father of two beautiful children— my son, Isaac is 9 years old, and my daughter, Rebecca, is 7.
The last time my two beloved children were at their home in Franklin, Tennessee, it was a Tuesday afternoon in August 2009. Isaac and Rebecca were in the middle of playing a game when their mother, Noriko Esaki Savoie, arrived to pick them up and take them back-to-school shopping. At least that is what Noriko told us she would be doing.
United States Congressmen Demand Japan Return Abducted American Children
Friday, May 14th, 2010
Rep Moran H Res 1326 Press Conference
WASHINGTON – Congressman James Moran (D-VA), along with two other representatives introduced House Resolution 1326, condemning Japan over its blatant disregard for human rights in the matter of parentally abducted children. For over 58 years, Japan has failed to return a single child detained unlawfully and in violation of United States courts.
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Members of BAC-Home support H. Res 1326
Friday, May 14th, 2010
BACHome Members at H Res 1326 Press Release
WASHINGTON – May 6, 2010
BAC-Home (Bring Abducted Children Home) met with Congressman James Moran (D-VA), along with other representatives to promote House Resolution 1326. H. Res.1326 demands that Japan recognize American children unlawfully abducted by a parent to Japan.
ShareU.S. Senator Inhofe Addresses US-Japan Child Abduction Concerns
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Washington, District of Columbia – April 15, 2010
U.S. Senator Jim M. Inhofe (R-OK), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, submitted a written statement for the hearing on US-Japan relations about two subjects of concern: Japan’s hesitation on relocating the U.S. Marine’s Futenma Air Station and the ever increasing abduction of children to Japan.
ShareThe Dark Side of the Cherry Blossoms
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010OpEd by BACHome
April 9, 2010
The Japanese festival of cherry blossom viewing is celebrated in Washington, DC every year. Cherry blossoms
were donated by Japan 98 years ago to promote goodwill. Today, Japan considers itself a close ally of the US.
However, there is a dark side to Japan that most Americans are unaware of. For the past 58 years, Japan has
continued to perpetrate human rights abuses against American children, our most vulnerable citizens. These
actions have finally started to strain relations between the United States and Japan. In the last decade alone, 231
American children have been reported illegally abducted to Japan. All legal and diplomatic means to recover
them have proven futile. Since the end of the post World-War II occupation and re-establishment of Japan’s
sovereign government in 1952, Japan has not repatriated a single kidnapped child. The Hague Convention on the
Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction provides a remedy for retrieving children who have been
abducted internationally. It has been ratified by 81 countries, but Japan has not acceded to the treaty. Japan is
more than just a haven for international child abduction. It is quite literally a black hole for abduction, from
which no child has ever returned.
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Setting of the Sun
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
By Ken Connelly
April 14, 2010
As many of you know, my heart and soul lay in the intertwined fabric of Parental Child Abduction. Due to the lack of hours in a day, I am not one to throw myself like the wind to every group in parental child abduction. This past week, I was honored to participate with a number of left-behind parents in Washington D.C. This particular group struck a very deep and real emotion in me, one I have often ignored or have not allowed myself to feel.
Fifteen parents who share not only the tragic and horrific crime of having their child(ren) stolen or taken away from them gathered to seek help from our government. Putting aside differences, and understanding the need to work as a team, or army, BAChome (Bring Abducted Children Home) has been formed to address many of the concerns and issues of not only America-to-Japan abductions, but parental child abduction as a whole.
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