{"id":39446,"date":"2021-08-02T23:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T23:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39446"},"modified":"2021-08-02T23:12:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T23:12:58","slug":"tokyo-2020-a-parents-plea-in-the-shadow-of-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39446","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020: A parent&#8217;s plea in the shadow of the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In Tokyo a French father is drawing the world\u2019s attention to what he says is the kidnapping of children by their own parents in Japan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Vincent Fichot started a hunger strike outside the Olympic stadium on 10 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He says his Japanese wife disappeared from the family home with his two children three years ago and that he has not seen them since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">His story is far from rare in a country that only allows one parent sole custody of children when marriages break down, and other parents have joined his protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Fichot has had to pause his hunger strike following a fall that required hospitalisation and surgery but vows to continue..<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Reporter: Rupert Wingfield-Hayes<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Producer: Chika Nakayama<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58057432\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tokyo a French father is drawing the world\u2019s attention to what he says is the kidnapping of children by their own parents in Japan. Vincent Fichot started a hunger strike outside the Olympic stadium on 10 July. He says his Japanese wife disappeared from the family home with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/119718011_p09r525y.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}