This is Reiko Nakata Greenberg Collins. She is the mother of 2 children by 2 different marriages. Her daughter from a previous marriage was born February 26, 1993.  Her daughter is a very bright and wonderful young girl. It was a blessing to have watched her grow up from the little 5 year old girl to the young lady she had become. Our son, Keisuke (pronounced Case K) Christian Collins was born on March 3, 2003 at 3:03 PM.  That makes his birth date 03/03/03 at 3:03. His exact birth time was a national moment of prayer. From the moment I saw him, I knew he was a true blessing. Keisuke means God’s blessing in Japanese. The last day I laid eyes on Keisuke or heard his voice was June 15, 2008, Father’s Day.

On June 13, 2008, a California Superior Court order was rendered requiring Reiko Nakata Greenberg Collins to turn over Keisuke’s US passport to the court and his Japanese passport to the Japanese Consulate within 24 hours. Neither of us was to remove Keisuke out of Orange County. I personally contacted the Japanese consulate to ask how this should be handled. I was told by a representative of the consulate “We will not accept the passports and she does not need to turn them over. They are Japanese citizens and are free to go wherever they wish.” When I advised him that my son was born here in Orange, California and I had concerns of him being taken out of the country, he replied “We don’t care.”  On June 16, 2008, Reiko, in direct violation of a Superior Court order, kidnapped Keisuke, her daughter, and fled to Japan. Due to Reiko's selfish and illegal acts, she has arrest warrants issued by the Orange County Sherff's Department, the FBI for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosection, and a Red Notice on Interpol.

Mine is not an isolated incident. Since 1952 when Japan regained its soveriegnty thousands of children have been kidnapped to Japan. According to the Children's Right's Counsil of Japan, over 10,000 American children have been illegally abducted to Japan in the past 15 years. The Japanese government has made Japan a “Safe Haven” for the abduction of children from around the world by encouraging, condoning, and conspiring in the abduction of our children. Japan has been able to get away with such egregious behavior because it is the only industrialized and G-7 nation not to have signed The Hague Convention Treaty. Japan will not lift a finger in returning my son or any other illegally abducted child back to their legal and habitual home country.

History

In 1978 Reiko’s parents, Ken and Miyuki Nakata shipped their only children off to the United States for their education. Reiko was 13 years old. Her sister was 14. Neither could speak the English language. Maybe it is normal in Japan to avoid parental responsibility in the formative years and ship their children thousands of miles away to a country in which the children know no one and cannot speak the language. Maybe there is another reason as to why a parent would need to ship off 2 young girls so may miles away. I would never do that to my child. I love him too much to want to spend a moment away from him. 
 

In the early 1990s Reiko married, and in 1993 she and her husband had a baby girl.  Reiko insisted that the daughter stay in the same bed as her and her husband. After 2 years it was decided their daughter should move in to her own room. Reiko insisted that she stay in the new room with her daughter for a “Transition” period. In 1996 her husband filed for divorce citing as one of the reason that Reiko had moved in to the other bedroom and never returned. In Reiko’s response to the declaration by her husband, she states the reason she moved in to another bedroom was not for a “transition” period but because she believed her husband was molesting their daughter. Now ask yourself, if you thought for one second that your spouse was molesting your daughter, how long would you stay in that house? Reiko stayed under the same roof for another 1 ½ years. Due to her allegations, Child Protective Services were called in. When Reiko found out the allegation were to be proven false, she dropped the case to avoid possible charges against her. She made false allegations just for the sake of shock value to the court.  This pattern of lies would continue as I would find out later. Unfortunatley for me, I didn't know the real truth of the reasons for her divorce until our divorce was started. Her divorce became final in in early 1997.

I met Reiko in June 1999. We married on September 1, 2000. The first year was what I thought was normal. I worked full time to provide for my family while she was able to be the stay-at-home she wanted to be; just as she did in her previous marriage. Although things were financially challenging for a while, she insisted that she was not going to help in creating any income to help the family.

In June 2002 she became pregnant.  She found out she was pregnant during her annual seven-week trip to Japan. In August she arrived home from that trip and it was then that she told me. It was also at this time she moved in to another bedroom. She continued to sleep in this bedroom during her pregnancy and then in the same bed as our son up to the time she fled to Japan in June 2008. In a little over 15 years of two marriages, she slept in the same bed as her husband(s) for approximately three years. It is very apparent that husbands were nothing more than a sperm donor for her to use.

During our marriage I tried repeatedly to get us in to counseling but she refused. I knew the marriage would not last but the thought of not seeing my son on a daily basis was hard to imagine. I had heard for years that a person should not stayed married just for the children. I totally agree with that now. Reiko controlled every aspect of Keisuke’s life. I rarely got any time with him in his 5 years. She was with him 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 
 

In March 2008, Reiko filed for divorce. This was actually a relief in that I had met with an attorney the day before to start proceedings. I moved out of the house within the week and thought everything would be smooth and easy. All I wanted was to finally get some time with Keisuke. Little did I know that the nightmare was only beginning.

During the divorce phase, I began looking more in to our finances and her previous divorce. Now that I had seen what really happened in her previous divorce, everything started to make more sense as to what was happening in our marriage. 

I had let her pay the bills as I was working and going to school full time. As I was gathering my financials for the divorce, I found that Reiko had been systematically stealing over $200,000 in the previous 3 years. She had numerous personal bank accounts that I never knew of. In September 2007, she purchased a new car and said it was a “Gift” from her parents. In actuality, she had withdrawn the money from the equity line of credit on our home the day before the purchase and deposited the money into one of her accounts. The day the court ordered her to turn over the passports, she sold the car for $15,000 to Carmax and pocketed that money. In all, Reiko had withdrawn over  $80,000 from our equity line. The other problem in this is that she took all the money from the equity line. This was not savings. I have to pay it all back with interest.

In every marriage, it takes two to get it to work and to fail. There are many things I could have done better. But I can say I worked very hard and gave a lot more than I received. Every year of our marriage, while she was able to not have to work, I provided for her 7 week trips to Japan along with the children. Every Easter we went to Hawaii. She took numerous trips to San Francisco to visit with the family she stayed with when she arrived in the United States.  Her daughter went to one of the best private school in the state and received private piano and violin lessons. When her daughter was to go on her weekend visitations to her dad’s, I am the one that drove over 5 hours to drop her off. I paid tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees and court costs against her ex-husband to retain her custody time with her daugher.

Reiko Nakata Greenberg Collins has been planning her departure from the United States long before she met me. This is a very common occurance of these abductors. Many Japanese women marry in other countries only to eventually reutrn with our children in tow. reiko was caught in numeous lies and for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars. The walls came crashing in when her lies were proven and the courts were going to take action.

In October 2007 her parents came to visit. It was during this time that her escape was being planned. Even though everyone could speak English, except my mother-in-law, and I did not speak or understand Japanese, rarely did anyone speak English. This was very prevalent at the dinner table when I was excluded from any and all conversation. 

Japan has the facade of being a country of "Honor" and "Respect".  What honor or respect is there in abducting an innocent child?  My child is not property. He is OUR son. He was born and raised in Orange County California. Reiko is the one who disignated jurisdiction of the court.  It doesn't change to Japan just because she got caught in her web of lies. Reiko Nakata Greenberg Collins violted US laws on US soil.  

Am I angry? Of course I am.  I am angry, frustrated, and heart-broken. My only child has been illegally abducted to a country in which no child has ever been returned. How could any loving parent feel anything less than that? Until anyone walks in the shoes of a parent who has lost a child to abduction to another country, you have no idea what we go through every day. And I pray that you never do. I cannot begin to explain the heartache, loss, and frustration that we got through. 

The State Department has requested several welfare visits to see my son. They have gone ignored or denied. The last known address is with her parents Ken & Miyuki Nakata in Chiba Japan. With the exception of abuse, no parent deserves to lose their children by abduction. Every child has the right to both parents and every parent has the right to be with their child. Our children are not "Property" of the abducting spouse or the Japanese goverment. They are children with basic human and Constitutional rights they inherited by being born and living their entire lives in the United States of America. It is time for Japan to live up to the same demands it makes on North Korea for the returning of their children abducted over 30 years ago. All but 5 of the 17 who have been accounted for. No child has ever been returned by Japan. Over 5 times as many American children were abducted to Japan in 2009 than all of those abdcuted by North Korea over 30 years ago.

To my son Keisuke: I love you and miss you very much. I am forever your dad and will never stop fighting for your safe return.

Randy Collins
Father of Keisuke Christian Collins Abducted June 16th, 2008
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