Sentences with phrase «abductions of japanese»

Separately, Abe told reporters after a call on Sunday with Moon that the South Korean president had raised at the summit with Kim the issue of past abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korea.

Trump had also informed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he would urge North Korea to promptly resolve its abductions of Japanese citizens, the White House said.

Trump had informed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he would urge North Korea to promptly resolve its abductions of Japanese citizens, the White House said.

Not exact matches

Ahead of the inter-Korean summit, Iizuka met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday, calling on him to «respond effectively» to the rapidly changing situation to resolve the abduction issue.

Friday's inter-Korean summit drew a mixed reaction from relatives of Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korea decades ago, with some hopeful for the return of their loved ones and others anxious about the outlook, including the lack of a reference to the abduction issue in the leaders» joint declaration.

Japan remains the only Group of 7 nation to abstain from signing the Hague Convention on international child abduction, rendering the U.S. powerless to extradite Japanese citizens charged with violating U.S. courts» custody rulings.

The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released some limited information about the number of applications that it has received under the Hague Abduction Convention and the number of cases in which children have been returned.

However, their initial proposals were significantly diluted, and while the Diet ultimately adopted an extraordinarily lengthy enabling act bringing the Hague Abduction Convention into Japanese law, its provisions concerning the enforcement of Hague Convention return orders have proven to be unworkable.

The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Japan, in the Hague Abduction Convention case between James Cook and Hitomi Arimitsu — which upheld the Osaka High Court's revocation of its prior order that four children wrongfully retained in Japan should be returned to their habitual residence in the United States — vividly highlights the loopholes and fundamental weaknesses in the Implementing Act under which the Convention was brought into Japanese law and the resistance within Japan to acceptance of the principles underlying the Convention.

He has been interviewed frequently by U.S., Japanese and international news organizations on the topic of internatioanl child abduction to Japan.