\u00a9 TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 23) (Full)<\/p>\n
Allow visitation of children across national borders: U.S., Canadian, French, British ministers urge Japan to sign Hague treaty<\/strong> ——————————————–<\/p>\n \u00a9 JIJI PRESS (May 21, 2009)<\/p>\n International child abductions becoming serious issue: U.S., Britain, France, and Canada ask Japan to ratify Hague Convention<\/strong><\/p>\n At a press conference held today at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, the charge d’affaires of the United States and ministers from the British, French, Canadian embassies revealed that international child abductions had become a serious problem. They issued a joint statement calling on Japan to sign the Hague Convention, which aims at resolving the trouble resulting from international child abductions.<\/p>\n U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michelle Bond, who attended the press conference, stressed the seriousness of the problem, saying: \u00ab\u00a0Between the U.S. and Japan, there are 73 cases involving 104 persons of children having taken back to Japan. For the U.S., this is the second largest number of cases in the world, and the highest among countries that have ratified the agreement.\u00a0\u00bb According the ministers of the other countries, England has reached 36 cases, France, 26 cases, and Canada, 33 cases.<\/p>\n ————————————————<\/p>\n \u00a9 KYODO (Full)<\/p>\n Four countries including U.S. urge Japan to sign Hague Convention<\/strong><\/p>\n In order to prevent a parent from an international marriage that ended in divorce from returning to his or her country wrongfully taking a child or children from the marriage, the Hague Convention was adopted in 1980. On May 21, U.S. Charge d’Affaires ad interim James Zumwalt and the representatives of three other countries, Britain, France and Canada, held a press convention at the U.S. Embassy to urge Japan to become a signatory of the treaty. —————————————————–<\/p>\n \u00a9 REUTERS<\/p>\n Allies urge Japan to resolve child abductions ————————<\/p>\n \u00a9 AFP Tokyo, 21 mai 2009 (AFP) – Des diplomates des principaux pays alli\u00e9s du Japon ont appel\u00e9 jeudi le gouvernement nippon \u00e0 signer une convention internationale contre les enl\u00e8vements d’enfants par l’un des parents, un drame tr\u00e8s r\u00e9pandu dans l’archipel. ——————————————– ———————————————<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a9 TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 23) (Full) Allow visitation of children across national borders: U.S., Canadian, French, British ministers urge Japan to sign Hague treaty May 22, 2009 Norio Noro A symposium on finding a solution to the problem of Japanese citizens married to foreigners bringing their children back to Japan after divorce and denying the … Continuer la lecture de Compilations d’articles de la presse japonaise et internationale de mai 2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sos-parents-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.france-japon.net\/sosparentsjapan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.france-japon.net\/sosparentsjapan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.france-japon.net\/sosparentsjapan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.france-japon.net\/sosparentsjapan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.france-japon.net\/sosparentsjapan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.france-japon.net\/sosparentsjapan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/www.france-japon.net\/sosparentsjapan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.france-japon.net\/sosparentsjapan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.france-japon.net\/sosparentsjapan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.france-japon.net\/sosparentsjapan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMay 22, 2009
\nNorio Noro
\nA symposium on finding a solution to the problem of Japanese citizens married to foreigners bringing their children back to Japan after divorce and denying the other parent visitation rights was heard at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on May 21. The ministers of the U.S., Canadian, French, and British embassies in Japan held a joint news conference where they asked that the \u00ab\u00a0Japanese government sign the Hague treaty at an early date.\u00a0\u00bb
\nAppeal by U.S., Canadian, French, and British ministers
\nU.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michele Bond spoke earnestly about the \u00ab\u00a0tragedy\u00a0\u00bb of the affected parents and children: \u00ab\u00a0There have been 73 cases, affecting 104 children, of Japanese parents, mostly mothers, bringing their children to Japan and refusing visitation rights to the American parents. This is the largest number among non-members of the treaty.\u00a0\u00bb
\nThe Hague treaty protects children from the harmful effects of being brought across borders unlawfully, returns them to the country where they previously lived, and protects the right of parents to see their children.
\nThere are 81 members of this treaty, and Japan and Russia are the only G-8 countries that have not signed the treaty. Japanese citizens are involved in the largest number of disputes among the East Asian countries, but the government has been unreceptive to the treaty.
\nMinister David Fitton of the British Embassy said: \u00ab\u00a0There have been 36 disputes since 2003, and 11 of them remain unresolved. There had been no progress in the other cases and the British parents have given up.\u00a0\u00bb French minister Christophe Penot reported that, \u00ab\u00a0The mother would not even accept the letter sent by the father to his daughter in Japan, and he was devastated. This may develop into a political issue between Japan and France.\u00a0\u00bb
\nCanadian minister Donald Bobiash also noted that \u00ab\u00a0the protection of children under treaty is also in the interest of Japan.\u00a0\u00bb Maura Harty, senior policy director for the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the United States, called for \u00ab\u00a0doing what is best for the children.\u00a0\u00bb
\nAt the end of the news conference, U.S. Embassy Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires James Zumwalt said: \u00ab\u00a0Disputes are expected to increase from now on, so this is an urgent and important issue.\u00a0\u00bb The joint press statement issued strongly urges the Japanese government to \u00ab\u00a0implement measures such as facilitating parental visits.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
\nThose countries signing the treaty are obliged to make efforts to return the abducted child to the country in which he or she had lived. To date, eighty-one countries have signed the convention, but Japan alone among the Group of Seven countries has yet to sign.
\nCases of a divorced Japanese parent wrongfully taking a child back to his or her country, denying the foreign parent access to the child have increased. The four countries during the press conference stated that the number of cases between their respective country and Japan ranged from over twenty to over 70.<\/p>\n
\nThu, 21 May 2009 11:06:52 UTC\u00a0 JAPAN-ABDUCTION\/\u00a0\u00a0 By Isabel Reynolds
\nTOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) – The United States and three other countries on Thursday urged Japan to relieve the plight of a rising number of foreign nationals who are denied contact with their children by their Japanese former spouses.
\nWell over 100 such cases involving parents from the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Canada are in stalemate, senior diplomats from the four countries told a news conference.
\n\u00ab\u00a0Without a doubt, Japan’s allies are united in their concern regarding this tragic issue of international child abduction,\u00a0\u00bb said Michele Bond, a U.S. consular affairs official.
\nOne reason for the problem is that Japan is the only member of the Group of Seven major industrialised nations not to have signed a 1980 convention on international child abduction.
\n\u00ab\u00a0The left-behind parents of children abducted to or from Japan have little realistic hope of having their children returned and encounter great difficulties in obtaining access,\u00a0\u00bb the group said in a statement released at the news conference.
\n\u00ab\u00a0We therefore call upon Japan to accede to the convention.\u00a0\u00bb
\nJapan’s government says it is considering joining the 80 member countries who have already signed.
\n\u00ab\u00a0We are actually studying the possibility of signing the convention,\u00a0\u00bb said Takeshi Akamatsu, assistant press secretary at the Foreign Ministry. \u00ab\u00a0One of the issues concerned is that in the Japanese legal system, we refrain from interfering in these private issues,\u00a0\u00bb he said.
\nIt is not unusual in Japan for one parent, often the father, to lose all contact with their offspring after a divorce.
\nJapan’s joining the convention would not help foreign parents who divorced in Japan get access to their children, and the diplomats urged the government to deal with existing cases individually.
\nPaul Wong, a 43-year-old Tokyo-based U.S. lawyer lost touch with his small daughter after his Japanese wife died and her parents successfully sued to remove his parental rights.
\nHe is pursuing a legal appeal, but has not seen his child for two years.
\n\u00ab\u00a0I can never give up hope for my daughter because she has no one else to protect her,\u00a0\u00bb he said in a telephone interview.
\n(Reporting by Isabel Reynolds; Editing by Paul Tait)<\/p>\n
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\nAppel pour que le Japon signe la convention contre les enl\u00e8vements d’enfants <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nChaque ann\u00e9e, \u00e0 la suite d’une s\u00e9paration ou d’un divorce, 166.000 enfants sont coup\u00e9s, le plus souvent d\u00e9finitivement, d’un de leurs parents, selon des statistiques officielles Japonaises.
\nDans 80% des cas, c’est le p\u00e8re, Japonais ou \u00e9tranger, qui perd tous ses droits sur l’enfant.
\n\u00ab\u00a0Nous estimons qu’il y a urgence\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 l’ambassadeur par int\u00e9rim des Etats-Unis, James Zumwalt, lors d’une conf\u00e9rence de presse aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de repr\u00e9sentants de la Grande-Bretagne, la France et du Canada.
\n\u00ab\u00a0Nous avons de plus en plus de mariages mixtes et le nombre de cas va augmenter\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-il ajout\u00e9.
\nLe Japon est le seul membre du G7 \u00e0 ne pas avoir sign\u00e9 la Convention de La Haye sur les aspects civils des d\u00e9placements illicites d’enfants.
\nMichele Bond, vice-secr\u00e9taire d’Etat adjointe charg\u00e9e des expatri\u00e9s am\u00e9ricains, a signal\u00e9 73 affaires avec 104 enfants nippo-am\u00e9ricains ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0enlev\u00e9s et emmen\u00e9s au Japon ou ill\u00e9galement retenus dans l’archipel\u00a0\u00bb.
\nDans 29 autres cas, les parents et les enfants vivent au Japon, mais \u00e0 la suite d’une s\u00e9paration ou d’un divorce, le parent am\u00e9ricain ne peut pas voir son enfant, selon Mme Bond.
\nLes diplomates britannique, fran\u00e7ais et canadien ont signal\u00e9 95 cas d’enl\u00e8vement, avec le plus souvent une rupture totale du contact avec l’un des parents.
\nMme Bond a soulign\u00e9 que des parents Japonais \u00e9taient eux aussi victimes de cette situation. \u00ab\u00a0Comme le Japon n’est pas membre de la Convention de La Haye, il ne peut pas la faire appliquer m\u00eame si l’enfant a \u00e9t\u00e9 emmen\u00e9 dans un pays signataire\u00a0\u00bb, a-t-elle expliqu\u00e9.
\nLa responsable am\u00e9ricaine a discut\u00e9 avec des fonctionnaires des minist\u00e8res Japonais des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res et de la Justice, selon lesquels Tokyo envisage \u00ab\u00a0tr\u00e8s s\u00e9rieusement une adh\u00e9sion \u00e0 la Convention de La Haye\u00a0\u00bb. \u00ab\u00a0Nous exhortons le gouvernement Japonais \u00e0 peut-\u00eatre acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer le processus car l’examen de cette question dure depuis pas mal de temps\u00a0\u00bb, a indiqu\u00e9 Mme Bond.<\/p>\n
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