child abduction

The Cabinet on March 9 approved a bill to write a domestic law that will enable Japan to sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

A Japanese woman is being detained in Hawaii in a standoff over a court order to return her 9-year-old daughter to the custody of her former husband.

In line with Japan's decision to join the Hague Convention on child custody, work to create necessary domestic legislation is about to start at government organs like the...