TOKYO- the Japan Friday decided to join an international Covenant that defines procedures for resolving disputes concerning cross-border child custody, after years of foreign pressure to do so.
At the meeting of the cabinet of Friday, the Government has agreed to sign the 1980 Hague Convention which extends custody rights non-Japanese parents whose children are moved to the Japan by a former spouse.
Spokesman head of Government, Yukio Edano told a press conference, "It is desirable to be consistent with the rules of the international community," according to Jiji Press.
Approval of the Parliament of the decision could come in the fall, the Nikkei daily said in its online edition.
The Japan is the only large industrial nation which has not signed the Treaty.
Tokyo has been in recent years under pressure from the United States and other countries to accede to the Treaty, as the Japanese courts almost never give the custody of foreign parents, particularly fathers, when international marriages break.
Activists say that thousands of foreigners, mostly men, have been barred at some point to see children taken to the Japan by the partners of which he was separated.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan is due to announce the plan when he attends a Summit of the G8 in France next week, Japanese media reported.
Sent by United States, the European Union and nine other Governments called on the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in February last to sign the Treaty.
Last year the House of representatives approved a resolution condemning the Japan "abduction and illegal detention" of children and urging the alloy close to act immediately to resolve cases involving us parents.
The resolution of the House said 136 children were in the Japan, against the will of an American mother company.
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