EU committee urges Japan to stop domestic parental child abduction

A European Parliament committee adopted a resolution earlier this week urging the Japanese government to take measures to stop Japanese parents from abducting their children within the country when their marriages with EU nationals fall apart.Japan is already a party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international treaty providing a framework for the return of a child abducted by a parent living in another country. But its principles have no direct application to domestic abductions.The resolution, adopted unanimously Tuesday by the Commi…READ FULL ARTICLE