Japan approves joining int'l child abduction pact |

Japan approves joining int'l child abduction pact

In this May 5, 2010 file photo, fathers that lost their children to spousal abduction to Japan hold photos of their children during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Japan’s parliament has approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse. The upper house of parliament on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, voted to join the 1980 Hague Convention on international child abduction following passage by the more powerful lower house last month.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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