see as abducted children it's a fate that he shares with many other fathers around the world in other countries the police will pursue the case but in japan the authorities are uncooperative. in japan you have to go there with a court bailiff get to keep the children have to go with you willingly to sit tight and the parent who has ducted the children has to agree and in the 5 years since japan ratified the hague convention that hasn't happened and it's not even one cannot 6 months from to get. and johan are meanwhile 4 and 6 years old. the legal situation is clear under the hague convention japan must repatriate children within 6 weeks of the filing of the petition for their return. japan ratified the convention. it went into force 5 years ago but chapin hasn't