The following are readers' responses to the Nov. 8 Zeit Gist column headlined "My children are my everything — the reason I'm alive" by Simon Scott. The story followed Canadian Bruce Gherbetti on a surprise visit to his estranged wife's home in Fukushima in the hope of visiting his children, whom he hadn't heard from in two years.
When the Japanese come from their country and start families in other places, they should be forced to accept our laws and rules; they're good enough for us, so what makes them so much better that they can't do the same?
We live by them here, and we allow them to come here and be a part of us, and there's no reason at all for them to take "our" children away in such a manner. It's cruel and unnecessary.