But he doesn’t know exactly where his wife or child are and the courts have not been of help. “Whoever abducts the child first is going to get custody,” he said. In 2014, Japan finally signed on to the Hague Convention, which aims to provide legal recourse against international child abductions. Related“Your child is akin to a table or an automobile (in Japan),” Gherbetti said from Australia where he now lives. “If someone takes one of those from you, you have a better chance of obtaining its possession again than you do a child.”Terstege said he’s given up on the Japanese court system.

Source: National Post October 02, 2016 15:33 UTC