Joui Nagatomi (a.k.a. Joseph Mark Harding)

Parent of Kidnapped Child:
Philip Harding
Location:
Guandong, China
Child's Birthday:
June 2000
Access Denied Since:
April 10, 2007
Parent Denying Access:
Mariko Harding (a.k.a. Mariko Nagatomi)
Where Retained:
Minami-ku, Fukuoka-shi, 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.