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A father has staged a hunger strike outside the Tokyo Olympics stadium to protest child abduction in Japan. Vincent Fichot, a 39-year-old banker from France, said that he wants to shed light on his plight as France s President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the global sports event.
Fichot said that he hadn t eaten a bite since he camped outside the stadium on July 10. He said that this hunger strike was his last resort to see his children, Tsubasa, 6, and Kaede, 3.
The Frenchman, living in Japan for 15 years, was married to a Japanese woman in 2009, but he claimed that he last saw or spoke to his kids in 2018 because they ve been abducted by their mother. Fichot said that after coming home from work at Nomura Securities, he found their house empty and had no clue as to where his wife fled with the children.
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