In Phichit there is a temple, Wat Tha Luang. It is a nice wat regularly visited by tourists. And if you go there, you'll see a litlle boy, a 9 years old little boy. He will show you a picture of a Japanese man, his dad, and will ask you if you know where he is, which I guess only a 9 years boy can hope he will get a positive reply.

By why is here there? Where is his mother? His mother died after having been infected with a disease she contracted while selling her body somewhere in Bangkok. So he lives with an auntie and his grand father and goes every day to the wat where, he was told by his mother on her deatbed, his Japanese father will come to take him.

How do I know this story? The Bangkok Post ran an article about him on its front page two days ago and the little Keigo became an overnight sensation. Offers to help him came from many places and now the Thai Foreign ministry will be looking for his father in Japan.

I'm all for it actually and hopefully his father can be found and made accountable for what he did but I also hope this case will not just be a flash in the pan, only a good story for the Bangkok Post. There are thousands of abandonned  mixed race children in Thailand who did not get the chance to make the front page of a major newspapers and who would need a bit more attention, so that more efforts are made to find the fleeing father.

I'm not really holding my breath but well,  let's just hope as this little boy did for so long.