It can be difficult to find a reliable private investigator in Japan.  It is not clear whether there is a formal licensing procedures and some may also be connected with organized crime, i.e. Yakuza. Certainly there are reputable ones, but it is important to be careful in your selection.  ABP World Group can help you make this selection.  Please report any good or bad experience - webmaster@crnjapan.net

Essays

1. •How to Retrieve Your Child Abducted To Japan
   

2. •Tips on How to Find Your Child In Japan
   

3. •Non-Legal Options to Extract Your Abducted Child
   

4. •Shalom, Japan: A Sabra's Five Years in the Land of the Rising Sun a book by Shifra Horn - reportedly "An eminently readable book in which the author explains in part how she taught Hebrew to a lady who snatched her son back from Israel in a cloak and dagger type move."
   

5. •Wakareya and Fukuenya (Breaker-upppers and Reconcilliators) This article from CrissCross Japan website discusses these new age Japanese companies that specialize in breaking up adulterous relationships and getting them back together.  
   

6. •Locate missing or unknown defendants/witnesses/heirs;
   

7. •Asset searches of defendants/potential defendants;
   

8. •Due Diligence background research on businesses in Japan;
   

9. •Direct Service of Process.
   

10. •Overview of costs for private investigative services in Japan.  (TBD)
    

Recommended List

These investigators have demonstrated experience in Japan and have been recommended by someone willing to put their name on it.

Abducted Child Recovery, International Child Recovery

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Private Investigations

1. •ABP World Group - International Child Recovery Services. 
   

         http://www.abpworld.com, http://www.abpworldusa.com,                  

         http://www.abpworldgroup.com.  The goal of Abp World

          Group international child recovery services is to locate, negotiate

          & recover your missing child.  We can dispatch personnel to most

          locations in the world; we specialize in locating missing children

          up to ages 18.  ABP is the only recovery agent endorsed by The

          Japan Children’s Rights Network.

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PLEASE TAKE CARE WHEN HIRING A RECOVERY AGENT.  THERE ARE A LOT OF SCAMMERS OUT THERE AND THERE IS NO GOVERNING BODY TO LICENSE THEM.  YOU COULD BE THROWING AWAY MONEY IF YOU ARE NOT CAREFUL.  ABP WORLD GROUP HAS THE SUPPORT OF THE JAPAN CHILDREN’S RIGHTS NETWORK, AND HAS SUCCESSFULLY RECOVERED CHILDREN FROM JAPAN.