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BBC NewsThe Japanese government has agreed to sign up to an international treaty that sets procedures for settling cross-border child custody disputes.
Japan is the only one of the Group of Seven industrialised nations yet to join the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction.
Correspondents say the move follows intense foreign pressure on Tokyo.
Its policies have been blamed for making it easy for Japanese mothers to remove children from foreign fathers.
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