Three Japanese mothers who took their children from the United States to Japan after failed international marriages urged the government Wednesday not to sign the Hague Treaty, which is aimed at preventing cross-border parental kidnapping.
The women, whose names have been withheld for privacy reasons, participated in a high-level government panel discussion on whether to sign the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
According to the participants, the women talked about their reasons for returning to Japan, and brought their children with them, claiming they made the move because of domestic violence.