Murray Wood's two children left Canada for Japan with his Japanese ex-wife in November 2004 to visit their gravely ill grandfather for a few weeks.
His children, however, have not been returned, and remain in Japan with their mother.
Since then, Wood has been engaged in a custody battle in Japan, and argues that his ex-wife's actions violate the 1980 Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
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