Hitomi Fukunaga, singer/songwriter and ex-wife of singer Chris Hart, updated her Instagram by the 30th. She revealed her thoughts on her divorce from Hart and custody of her children. [Photo] Chris Hart’s ex-wife Fukunaga reported, “Last night, for the first time, I attended a self-help group for parents who have been forced to live apart from their children. She wrote of the participants, “They were deeply wounded in a way that neither their heads nor their hearts could catch up with, and they were just thinking about what they could do for their children.” She continued, “I still strongly feel the obvious unreasonableness of the law, where the first person to take them away wins and the person who tries to bring them back is punished. （It is a joke (even though there is no abuse or infidelity),” he raged. He continued, “In Japan today, the lives of many parents and children are being abused by interpretation of the law, without any sense of justice or ethics,” he said. Parents who cannot speak up and cry themselves to sleep. Parents who take their own lives in despair. Above all, the children of Japan who are forced to live in an unfamiliar environment, cut off from their beloved parents, grandparents, cousins, and friends, without any satisfactory explanation. I want to restore the human rights of each and every one of them,” he wrote, declaring that he would “set a solid precedent for that purpose. Fukunaga said, “I know it is a hard road ahead, but I cannot let this inexplicable and absurd state of the world go on, which can never be satisfactorily explained to our Japanese children. I am clumsy, but I hope to use this samurai-like character of mine to help the world in any way I can while I am still alive. Let’s do our best, oh! he added with enthusiasm. Hart and Fukunaga married in 2001 and had three children together, but announced their divorce in April 2011. On August 20, Hart reported on his X (formerly Twitter) that the trial in the family court over custody of the children had ended and that “the family court has approved that I will continue to have custody and control of the children and raise them as before. Fukunaga also mentioned Hart’s report on his Instagram. Some of you who read the news reports and posts may have thought that the reason the mother did not have custody of the children was because of some shortcomings on her part. However, as I announced at the time of the divorce, I wanted the father and mother to continue to cooperate in raising the children after the divorce. I wanted to remain a good father and mother for the sake of my children. Therefore, at the time, I could not choose to fight with a lawyer for custody of my children. In reality, however, it was extremely difficult to regain custody once it had been given up, and it was almost impossible to overturn it,” he said. He added, “What was heard this time was only with regard to custody and control of the children, and although divorce was mentioned, it was not heard. In the future, we intend to clarify the facts on those points through the necessary legal procedures,” he said, indicating his intention to fight with Hart over the divorce.
