My name is Travis Lear and I was in the Navy stationed in Guam when I met a beautiful Japanese lady (Hiromi Mizuno) and she came back to the island many times during the 2 years to see me. When I got out of the Navy after the Gulf War I married my darling in Las Vegas like she wanted. We had a child after about 8 months of trying. We lived in America so our child LAYLA LEAR is an American born half Japanese and half American. Our child was my life and I did my best to raise my child in a loving manner giving her and teaching her all I knew. She was loved and adored by all the family and treated like a princess. You are a princess Layla (THAT’S WHAT THE MEANING OF YOUR NAME IS LAYLA, IT’S A BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS IN AN ENGLISH FOLK TALE STORY)

Layla learned very quickly to swim at 1 and an excellent rock climber and after we moved to Japan she became an excellent snowboarder like her father. We were inseparable. English was the only language she could speak because her mother refused to speak Japanese to her. When Layla would have bad dreams at night or fall down and hurt herself, whom do you think she cried out for? Yes, DADDY! Every time without fail. My wife hated this and I told Layla your mother needs to feel wanted too so sometimes ask your mother to help. The reason I think our daughter turned out this way was because I did almost all the raising and parenting myself. Everything from potty training to eating and cleaning up after yourself. Changing of the poopy pampers is a very American father thing to do and I did quite a bit of it. Hiromi Mizuno told me many times she did not love my or our daughter. This was very upsetting for me and I didn’t know what to do except love and encourage her. We had to move to Japan because the pressure from her parents was too much for Hiromi Mizuno. I being the adjustable loving guy that would do anything for my family decided to leave my profession and go to Japan and teach English which I could barely speak after being in the Navy 4 years and living by the beach all my life. Hiromi Mizuno would not still speak Japanese to her own daughter.

My wife eventually ran away from my daughter and I after we went to Japan. I had not seen her for 2 months. During that time I had to keep my job and the Kindergarten and Nursery school plus private students we acquired do all the cooking shopping, cleaning (I am good at that stuff, it’s the way my brothers and I were raised, CLEAN) and parenting by myself. CAN YOU IMAGINE? Figure out how to pay the bills and everything, it was quite embarrassing for me in Japan having to ask my boss to put my child in the nursery school. Layla was 4 and could not speak or understand the children at her new school but she was a bright loving carefree girl and made contact the best she could and was quite good at it if you ask me. It makes me cry to write this and remember the love and trust my daughter and I had together. I was an employee and I said this would be just temporary I hope so no proper documentation was made as I found out later.

(The later was one time my second wife left my second daughter and I and I took my second daughter Noel to Laylas’ old school and tried to get documentation of this and got good cooperation but proper documentation was not found)

During my wife’s (Hiromi Mizuno) two-month excursion to who knows where doing that knows what because she made no contact with me, plus her parents who lived in the same apt. building shut me out. DO YOU KNOW HOW THEY DO IT? IN THE SAME APT. BUILD. THE PARENTS STONE WALLED ME AND LAYLA. THEY WOULD WAIT TILL WE HAD GONE OR SOMETHING TO LEAVE THEIR APT. THEIR OWN FAMILY AND GRAND DAUGHTER. GET THIS! I AM QUIT AN EXPERIENCED MAN IN CHILD REARING BECAUSE MY REARING WAS VERY STRICT. I HAVE TWO HALF SISTERS TEN YEARS YOUNGER THAN I WHO MY LATE BROTHER DALLAS AND I WOULD GO VISIT TWICE A MONTH AND HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF BECAUSE MY MOTHER AND STEP FATHER WERE WORKING. I ALSO DID QUITE A BIT OF BABYSITTING WHEN I WAS A LAD ALSO. SO GET THIS! MY DAUGHTER LAYLA WAS SICK WITH A SEVER FEVER FOR TWO DAYS AND WAS IN AND OUT AT TIMES. I HAD TAKEN HER TO THE HOSPITAL AND GOT MEDICINE AND PROPERLY TOOK CARE OF HER AND THE FEVER CONTINUED. SHE WAS IN AND OUT OF THE HOSPITAL FOR TWO DAYS AND THE GRAND PARENTS WOULD NOT ANSWER MY BANGING ON THE DOOR. AND AT ONE POINT I SAW HIROMI MIZUNO AND WAS SCREAMING AT HER THAT HER DAUGHTER MAY DIE AND IS IN SEVER CONDITION. WHICH WAS 100% TRUE. SO I WAS SHOUTING TO THE PARKING LOT FROM THE 6TH FLOOR AND SHE DID NOT EVEN GLANCE, JUST WALKED AWAY AND I DIDN’T SEE HER FOR WEEKS.

Can you believe that? This is not a mother. Plus what she told me many times, she didn’t love us. All of this backing away from family and stonewalling just because their daughter took off for 2 months without provocation. We took thousands of family photos and videos. I tried to make it as normal for Layla as I could as she was tough and trusting because that’s the way I raised her to be. Her mother finally answered one of my calls and was willing to meet. We did the whole meet at the park thing and she eventually came back.

One day suddenly my wife took our child from her home, which was now in another part of the city. Closer to work. I of coarse went straight to grandma and grandpas house. (MIND YOU ALL THIS TIME WITH HER FAMILY IT HAS BEEN SWEET TO THE FACE AND DAGGER BEHIND YOUR BACK ALWAYS TRYING TO MAKE THE HUSBAND LOOK LIKE THE BAD GUY IN ORDER TO PUT YOURSELF ON PEDESTAL. I AM TALKING ABOUT FULL BLOWN ONCE A WEEK AT THE RESTAURANT WITH DADDY DRIVING THE WHOLE FAMILY AND HIROMI MIZUNO EVEN GOING TO CHURCH A FEW TIMES BEFORE SHE LEFT. LAYLY AND I WENT TO CHURCH ALMOST EVERY WEEK) So when I got to grandparents house it was pretty loud after I did keeping calm thing and tried to respect everyone’s feelings except my own for half an hour through the mail box. The police showed up guns drawn and calling me a stalker. (they just had released a new law regarding stalking because it is such a problem in that country) I didn’t speak good enough Japanese at the time to explain but I think they understood that my wife had kidnapped our daughter from her home. By that time I had a friend I thought I could trust to intervene for us because he had once before when she wanted attention. So the cops are there giving me this shit eating scowl of hatred that penetrated the very soul of my being. I got on the phone with my friend to come across the street and tell the cops about the abduction. He could see us from his work window.

To make this part real simple, my best friend betrayed me right off the bat at his first meeting with my wife. He switched coats so fast I didn’t believe my eyes. He had been with my child and I for the whole time in Japan. I met him on the first day I think. He and I were inseparable; he even got me to snowboard the first season. The first meeting I had with him after he talked to my wife was not good for Layla and I. I met him in a Denny’s and during our short conversation, the first reference I made to “my wife”, he replied very quickly, “that’s not your wife”. Right Keith! I hope you right this wrong you have done to MY family. You were the instrument of this LIE! “I KNOW JAPANESE LAW, I HAVE BEEN STUDYING IT LATELY, IF YOU DON’T SIGH THE DIVORCE PAPER, YOU WILL NEVER SEE YOUR CHILD AGAIN”.

So he told me not to refer to my wife as my wife anymore. I jerked him out of his seat and said you don’t want to piss off a father by being instrumental in taking his child and wife. So he freaked out and I visited him once more officially…and drug him around a while until his boss came. I am threatened into signing this paper by my wife Hiromi Mizuno and Keith. All on tape. Get my visiting rights contract all drawn up and stamped by a notary and signed by 4 people and recognized and accepted by the courts. Had about 3 lovely visits, (one time all day at the snowboard park with daddy, fun) and I got a lawyer to get more than 8 hours a month. Her mother had relocated to a secret place and would not tell me. during one of our visits Noel took me to her new home. My daughter is very good with directions and pays attention to everywhere we go and tells me when to turn the next time we go there. Her new place was in the rice fields and she had never been there before with us while we have been in Japan. That was my big mistake. Her lawyer shut me completely down and got restraining orders drawn up on me. I was not allowed to see my daughter. I TOOK EVERY ROOT AND WAS EVEN OFFERED HELP BY AN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AGENCY WHO TOLD ME WE COULD WIN IN SUPREME COURT BUT IF THE MOTHER DISAGREED WITH THE RULING AND DECIDED TO NOT OBEY IT, THERE WAS NO PUNISHMENT. NO PUNISHMENT FOR NOT FOLLOWING THE RULING OF A COURT CONCERNING THE LIFE OF A CHILD AND IT PARENT. I WAS NOT EMOTIONALLY READY FOR THAT, I WANTED TO KILL SOMEONE AT THAT POINT OR KILL MYSELF. I CRIED DAY AND NIGHT TO HOLD MY BABY. COLD HEARTED JAPANESE! THE MOTHER DIDN’T CARE THE COURT DIDN’T CARE THE POLICE DIDN’T CARE MY FRIENDS DIDN’T CARE MY WORK DIDN’T CARE AND ACTUALLY FIRED ME IN THE LONG RUN FOR IT. IT IS EMBARRASSING FOR THEM.

I don’t want to get into the days when I was a freaking mess. I tried so many different ways to see my daughter. I even had meetings with principals and had permission to go to her class window. She freaked and ran. I don’t know what they put into my girls head to make her do that when she sees me but its child abuse at least. Jail time for Hiromi Mizuno and her parents. Hiromi Mizunos’ parents used to tell her that they would sell her to a circus if she wasn’t good or do whatever they wanted her to do at the time. Sick. My wife believed that as a child too. Sick. These people have abducted my child. My wife used to say that her mother loved to slap her in the face real hard if she wasn’t good. If these people ever slapped my daughter in the face…

I saw them in the city from time to time with different reactions by me each time. I LEFT CHRISTMAS BICYCLES AND BIRTHDAY DRESSES ON THE DOOR STEP BUT THEY SAT THERE FOR A YEAR AND A HALF UNTOUCHED. THEY JUST RUSTED AND THE DRESSES WERE WASTED BY THE WEATHER. I EVENTUALLY STOPPED LEAVING GIFTS ON THE DOORSTEP. I wanted to get her trust back so I laid low for a few years and then approached her again and not a word, she would just yell for help. So I couldn’t even speak to her or get an answer on why she was doing what she was doing. To this day I don’t know. I do but its Japans special problem; no one can help them but them. I feel so sorry for them. Seem to want to be more pleasant people but are afraid of ridicule. This was going no where so I wanted to stay in Japan with my daughter even though I couldn’t raise her or see her or have her love again or feel her cheek on mine. I got lawyers to take this case and they were fired by me after I received 4 different summonses to appear in family court. This lawyer did not understand that I really meant it when I said we are taking her to court not her taking us to court. He refused to file anything against her in any way shape or form or defend the written law. She lives in the town next to where I lived (2km) the rest of my years in Japan, even today. WHAT A WASTE OF A BEAUTIFUL SEED. SO SMART AND HAD SO MUCH POTENTIAL. NOW SHE WILL BE THRUST INTO THE JAPANESE PORN SOCIETY FOR GIRLS WHO ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SHARE THEIR FEELINGS. JUST BE OBJECTS. I HOPE ENOUGH OF MY COMMON SENSE PREVAILS AND SHE CONTACTS ME BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.  WE ARE SICK OF THIS JAPAN!! YOU ARE STEALING THE YOUTH FORM THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN WHO WANT AND DESERVE TO RIGHT TO SEE THEIR BLOOD PARENTS WHO LOVED THEM AND RAISED THEM AND WERE THERE FOR ALL THE BAD DREAMS AND SICKNESS.  HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS AGAINST ALL INTERNATIONAL TREATIES YOU HAVE SIGNED.