Tokyo-based foreign envoys press child abuduction issue

Updated October 21, 2009 12:51:13

Tokyo is under international pressure to allow divorced foreign parents access to their children. The issue was thrown into the spotlight when an American man was arrested for snatching his two children from his Japanese ex-wife in the Japanese city of Fukuoka. Japan is the only G7 country that hasn't signed a 1980 convention which obliges countries to return abducted children to their country of residence. Late last week, ambassadors from countries including the United States, Britain and Australia met with Justice Minister Keiko Chiba to press the issue.

Presenter: Joanna McCarthy
Speakers: Colin Jones, professor at Doshisha University; Christopher Savoie, American father arrested for kidnapping; Simon Wood, spokesman, British Embassy in Tokyo