Tennessee father arrested in Japan
Story highlights: Christopher Savoie, 38, a Tennessee native and naturalized Japanese citizen, has been charged with kidnapping his two children – 8-year-old Isaac and 6-year-old Rebecca – as his estranged wife, Noriko, was walking them to school Monday in Yanagawa, a rural town in southern Japan.
♦Savoie had been awarded custody of his two children in a Tennessee Court!
- Man charged with abducting his own children denies committing breach
- Japanese custom, law on custody differ sharply from those in U.S.
- Japan is not party to 1980 convention that standardized abduction laws
- All parties in current case are Japanese citizens
Wearing a Nashville School of Law T-shirt, Christopher Savoie walked into a second-floor police interrogation room. In one corner, a stopwatch was running to hold him to the 15 minutes allotted for the interview. “I’m so scared,” he said.
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Savoie chose his words carefully, lest police Officer Toshihiro Tanaka cut short the rare interview Savoie was granted with CNN on Thursday. There were so many rules: No recording devices. No tough questions. Speak only in Japanese.
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“I want Americans to know what’s happening to me,” Savoie continued in Japanese. “I didn’t do anything wrong. Children have the right to see both parents. It’s very important for my children to know both parents.”
But Japanese authorities disagree.
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