JACK YOSHIDA

Parent of Kidnapped Child:
Tania Lamarre
Location:
Palm Springs, CA
Child's Birthday:
January 1997
Access Denied Since:
March 2005​
Parent Denying Access:
Takeshi "Tai" Yoshida
Where Retained:
Tokyo, Japan

Background

More than 500 children have been abducted from the United States by a parent to Japan since 1994. Internationally Japan is known as a black hole for child abduction for its consistent failure to return kidnapped children and was named as a top-three worst offender by the U.S. Department of State.