{"id":9682,"date":"2011-11-27T16:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T07:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2011-11-27T16:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T07:33:14","slug":"mofa-offers-public-comments-on-signing-hague-convention-on-child-abductions-not-much-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9682","title":{"rendered":"MOFA offers public comments on signing Hague Convention on Child Abductions; not much there"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Blog. Related to Japan’s future signing of the Hague Convention on Child Abductions, here we have an official report about a public forum held on November 22, 2011 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (something I attended before and incidentally considered a very flawed and biased format<\/a>). \u00a0Present were academics, lawyers, the Ministries of Justice, Health and Welfare, Education, Internal Affairs, plus the Cabinet and the National Police Agency.<\/p>\n

In the course of discussions about setting up a central agency to handle the enforcement of the Hague, 168 public comments were collected since the end of September and were brought up at this meeting. \u00a0That report follows in full below, courtesy of TS. \u00a0A few things I found noteworthy within it:<\/p>\n

1) The term LBP (Left-Behind Parent) is now part of the Japanese lexicon.<\/p>\n

2) In discussions about the right of both parents to have information about (if not access to) their children, the same old saws about DV (domestic violence, however unclearly defined, and in Japan that matters<\/a>) came up, and the GOJ is as usual being called in to do something about it (apparently more than just mediate, which the GOJ gets all control-freaky and nanny-state about<\/a>) — seesawing between the LBP’s right to know about their children and the custodian’s right to be safe from the violent boogeyman ex-spouse. \u00a0This seesawing was also visible in an even more vague discussion about the GOJ holding onto passports of potential abductors and abductees, except under exceptional circumstances that were mentioned but left undeveloped.<\/p>\n

3) The GOJ, regarding contact between LBP and child, plans to “support the respect of visitation rights”, but it also leaves measures vague and expresses caution about doing much of anything, really.<\/p>\n

All told, this level of discussion was pretty low. I found little concrete here to sink one’s teeth into regarding advising toward future policies guaranteeing the lynchpins to this discussion: joint custody and guaranteed visitation that goes beyond an hour a two a month. \u00a0Not to mention return of internationally abducted children to their habitual residence as per the Hague<\/a>. \u00a0Others are welcome to read the text below and squeeze out whatever interpretations I may have missed. \u00a0But given how much duplicity has taken place regarding the rights of LBPs in Japan up until now<\/a>, I sadly remain unhopeful. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

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