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Jeremy Morley
Another U.S. case was resolved today based on my expert
testimony concerning the risk of permitting child visitation to Japan.
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released some
limited information about the number of applications that it has received under
the Hague Abduction Convention and the number of cases in which children have
been returned. The figures are quite disturbing. It is essential to understand
that just because a country has signed up to the Convention does not mean that
abducted children will be returned. With Japan, the concerns are substantially
enhanced by virtue of the terms of the Implementing Act whereby Japan brought
the Convention into domestic Japanese law and limited its scope.
