Japan will sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction in 2011, thus finally joining the many developed countries that prevent a parent in a failed international marriage from taking children across borders in violation of an existing child custody order. This is in direct response to “gaiatsu” or foreign pressure ...
Japan has the seventh highest incidence of reported parental abductions from the United States (currently 23 cases involving 34 children.) Typically, such cases involve a wife who wrongfully takes children to Japan in violation of a custody ruling. Since Japan is not a signatory to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International ...
In view of increasing dual-nationality marriages and the high statistics ...