TOKYO -- Japan is facing criticism over noncompliance with an international treaty that sets rules for cross-border parental child abductions as the government is slow to enforce court orders on its own citizens who have taken their children to escape overseas custody battles.
Japan was among the 12 nations singled out in a U.S. report in May for "demonstrating a pattern of noncompliance" with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
