‘Emotions are running high’: Japan and Australia face off over child abductions | ErykBagshaw
that up to 68 Australian-Japanese children have been caught up in parental abduction and child custody disputes between their Australian and Japanese parents. In some cases, children have been snatched while at school, others have been taken from their family home or sent on a holiday from Australia to Japan - never to be seen by their Australian parent again.
“When it comes to this issue of removal of children from one parent across borders between Australia and Japan, we are fully aware [parents’] emotions are running high on both sides,” he said in an interview with this masthead. But those comments have infuriated parents, some of whom remain legally married to their Japanese partner and stranded in Japan, terrified of losing all prospect of seeing their children if they leave the country.“I am still married but have had no meaningful contact with my children for two-and-a-half years,” said Catherine Henderson, an Australian mother-of-two based in Tokyo.
“I am still married,” he said. “Can he explain to me how the Japanese people, his own people, how a country can operate like this?”“We don’t allow for joint parenthood,” he said. “Because it is based on the idea that if terms of the relationship between father and mother are not good enough, then children may suffer from dealing with both of them.”Credit:“Of course, consideration is being made whether we should revise our system.
“The father and daughter said goodbye to the mother who was walking off in a different direction. I wanted to run after the mother and warn her that she shouldn’t let them go and that it might be the last time she ever sees her daughter.”found in 2018 that when Japanese parents refused to comply with court return orders, “there were no effective means to enforce the order, resulting in a pattern of noncompliance”.
Adam Perry, a British solicitor who spent five years living in Japan studying its legal system, said Japan stands alone as the only G20 nation not to have a system of joint custody.
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