LONDON — Japanese courts should give more support to foreigners who are seeking access to their children living in the country, according to a British father who is seeking the return of his two daughters to England. Shane Clarke says Japanese courts need to do more for the hundreds of foreign parents whose estranged Japanese spouses have taken children away from their home country and returned to Japan. Once back in Japan, family courts will generally award custody to the Japanese parent in these cases even when she or he (it is normally the mother) has deliberately taken her or his child away from its home country. And, more than likely, the foreign father will not be able to persuade the judge to give joint custody or have the child returned to its home country. The courts will generally side with the Japanese mother who...
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