FILE PHOTO: A woman takes a photo of an illuminated ice sculpture at the Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, northern Japan on February 7, 2007. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/File Photo
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two European fathers who live in Japan will urge EU lawmakers this week to increase pressure on Tokyo to tackle parental child abduction by changing a law that does not recognise joint child custody following divorce.
Frenchman Vincent Fichot and Italian Tommaso Perina will present a petition to the bloc's legislative assembly in Brussels on Wednesday to demand action against cases of so-called parental child abduction affecting Europeans living in Japan.
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