In Appropriate

Gary Schmidt a small-town American boy meets a Japanese girl in college and follows her to Japan to start a family. Little does he know that her conservative Japanese clan has hidden agendas and secret intentions. Gary eventually realizes that he must escape their clutches - and convince his family to do the same before it's too late! IN APPROPRIATE is a book about child abductions in Japan where after a divorce a non-Japanese man comes back to Japan to retrieve his children back to America. Although a work of fiction it is an amalgam of several true stories of divorce and Left-Behind Parents in Japan.