{"id":1440,"date":"2008-05-01T06:02:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T21:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2008-05-09T12:25:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T03:25:37","slug":"japan-times-canada-us-nudge-japan-to-join-child-abduction-resolution-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times: Canada, U.S. nudge Japan to join child abduction resolution framework"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi Blog.\u00a0 This story is from the Japan Times – Saturday, March 15, 2008, on a topic of import to Debito.org:\u00a0 child custody after divorce–and Japan’s difficulty with accepting children brought back to Japan without the permission of both parents as abduction.\u00a0 Comment from the submitter follows article.\u00a0 Debito in Matsuyama<\/p>\n

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Canada, U.S. nudge Japan to join child abduction resolution framework<\/strong><\/p>\n

By TAKAHIRO FUKADA
\nStaff writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20080315a6.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Canadian and the U.S. government officials and a law expert Friday
\nurged Japan to join an international legal framework to resolve
\ncross-border cases of child abduction by parents and others.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As the number of international marriages rises, there will be a
\ncorresponding rise in divorces among multinational couples. The Hague
\nConvention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
\nstates that children removed or retained from a signatory state by a
\nparent without the other’s permission must be returned promptly to the
\noriginal country of residence.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The convention can also help parents exercise visitation rights abroad.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Japan is not among the 80 signatories to the convention. When kids are
\nabducted to nonsignatory countries, it can take years to make any
\nprogress, and sometimes all efforts are in vain.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ottawa is dealing with more than 620 unresolved child-abduction and
\ncustody-related cases, Bill Crosbie, the Canadian Foreign Affairs and
\nInternational Trade Department’s deputy minister for consular
\nservices, said at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. Twenty-nine of them,
\nthe highest number in any one country, are in Japan, he said.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The U.S. currently has 40 cases of international child abduction
\ninvolving Japan, the third-largest after Mexico and India, said
\nKathleen Ruckman, deputy director of the U.S. State Department’s
\nChildren’s Issues Office.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“What the Hague Convention is about to say (is) where the decision has
\nto be made about the child’s future,” said William Duncan, deputy
\nsecretary general of the Hague Conference on Private International Law.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

END OF STORY.<\/p>\n

COMMENT<\/strong>:\u00a0 Its interesting how the US government makes the intake requirements
\nfor actual new cases to qualify as an “official” State Dept case of
\nchild abduction to a foreign country in an effort to keep the numbers
\nlow. But thank GOD that many people have met all of those criteria and
\nmaintain the official cases with the Govt…same in Canada . Thanks to
\nthe Govt of Canada for keeping the pressure on Japan!
\nPatrick B<\/em><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canadian and the U.S. government officials and a law expert Friday
\nurged Japan to join an international legal framework to resolve
\ncross-border cases of child abduction by parents and others… The U.S. currently has 40 cases of international child abduction
\ninvolving Japan, the third-largest after Mexico and India, said
\nKathleen Ruckman, deputy director of the U.S. State Department’s
\nChildren’s Issues Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-japanese-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}