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The most recent showing of the 2-hr TV Special, “FBI Psychic Investigator,” aired in Japan September 25th at 9 PM on Nippon Television, Channel 4, and as usual, did very well. Joe’s portion of the show was exciting because he was asked to assist in finding the father of a famous young Japanese comedian, Tamura-san.

Tamura-san lost his mother to cancer when he was a small boy, and his father was forced to quit his job, so the family had to live on their father’s savings in order to care for their sick mother until she finally had fallen victim to her disease. By then the family money had run out and one day when he and his siblings returned home from school, they found they had been evicted from their home onto the street. The family was forced to split up, initially living on the streets, each going their own way. So, as a small boy, Tamura-san lived on a school playground for over a month, until rescued by family services.

Eventually favored by fortune, Tamura-san became a famous Japanese comedian, and searched for his father for years, but to no avail. He finally asked the studio if Joe could help. The production staff sent his father’s name and birth date to me, which I then made into a target by writing this information on a piece of paper and placing inside a sealed envelope, which I then gave a target number for Joe to remote view. The film crew then came to Virginia and filmed Joe as he described the target and his location (to which he was blind, of course).

Many interesting things happened on this target. Joe obviously described the Osaka, Japan area, but some of his descriptions were also obviously drawn 180 degrees in reverse. This is something that is unusual, but not completely unexpected sometimes with Joe’s sketching — when his drawings are subsequently reversed they will usually be more accurate. Another interesting problem was that Joe kept moving Tamura-san’s father between what appeared to be a treatment facility and his home and couldn’t seem to keep them separated, one from the other. This sometimes happens when that person is spending as much time at one place as they are at the other, especially in their old age. One location will soon appear to be as much a ‘home’ as the other is actually ‘home.’

In any event, Joe was able to assist in locating Tamura-san’s father and they were able to contact him for a possible future reunion. Their reunion proved to be a very moving and emotional event. It was the first time Tamura-san had seen his father in over 13 years.