JAPAN SAYS WILL JOIN CHILD ABDUCTION TREATY
AFP | January 19, 2013 Washington ---Japan's foreign minister said Friday his country's new government would join a treaty on child abductions, addressing one of the few rifts in relations with its main ally the United States.
Japan has not signed or ratified the 1980 Hague Convention, which requires the return of wrongfully held children to the countries where they usually live...more...