March 2013

Surveillance is the best method used to verify if spouses are cheating on each other. It can involve husbands, wives, boyfriends or girlfriends. Also referred to as “tailing someone” it is the technique of putting an investigator out in the field who follows the suspected cheater to document their activities without their knowledge. This is accomplished by recording their activities on videotape. The number of investigators used depends on a

Please advise cost and timeframe of results (turnaround time) to conduct employee background checks in Japan. We are interested in the following items: 1.Criminal records 2.Driving records (if available) 3.Medical records (if available) 4.Education (highest degree awarded) 5.Employment (2 prior employers) What information do you need from us, besides the person’s full name and a signed release form? The investigative situation in Japan Criminal records are basically unavailable in Japan.

We have been constantly getting a large number of consultations from overseas clients whose children were abducted to Japan by their Japanese spouses without the settlement of custody or visitation right. Arguments over whether Japan would join Hague Convention or not have been repeated for the past 10 years or so, but Japan have always put off the ratification until now. We were concerned about how other countries saw us.