Fate of child abductions bill in Diet uncertain
By The Japan Times 4/13/2012
"...Western allies have long pressured Japan to join the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and are watching closely to see whether Tokyo lives up to an earlier promise to ratify it. ..."
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