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TOKYO — Japan’s Cabinet approved a plan to join a global child-custody treaty today, amid foreign pressure on Tokyo to revise policies some say allow Japanese mothers to too easily take their children from foreign fathers.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s Cabinet endorsed the move, which would spur changes in Japanese laws to bring them in line with the 1980 Hague Convention on international abduction, said Yusuke Asakura, an official at the Cabinet Office.Asakura said the Cabinet plan must be approved by parliament for it to take effect, and it could face resistance there.
