We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that chuckers has
exploded. Flight director confirms that:

>One weird thing in the article is that the embassy is quoted as saying:
>"Parental child abduction is not considered a crime in Japan" yet he gets busted
>for kidnapping.

An AP article
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_us_custody_battle_1)
clarifies this by writing, "Japan has argued that refusing to sign the Hague
Convention helped shield Japanese women and their children fleeing from abusive
foreign husbands." Ergo, it's only kidnapping if the abusive foreign husband
does it, and all foreign husbands are either active or latent child-beaters.
QED.


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