"Child-custody procedures proposed, but conditions apply"
- Asahi Shimbum 1/24/12 via Patrick Braden at Global Future
Everything in it sounds like straightforward appliaction of the Hague Convention, although one can guess that the Convention's exception to returning children who face a grave risk of physical or psychological harm, which is very narrowly interpreted in the rest of the world, could be used in every case where someone speculates that visitation after divorce is too stressful for children to deal with. The article says the legislation is proposed by "a subcommittee of the Legislative Council, an advisory panel to the justice minister".
The government said it would also draft a bill for non-international cases, which would mean that all Japanese children of divorce would have the same opportunity for contact with both parents that the Hague Convention gives to internationally abducted children.
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