The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on a resolution urging Japan to return children that lawmakers say have been abducted, according to AP. The nonbinding resolution also calls for Japan to immediately allow Americans to visit their children and for Tokyo to join a 1980 international convention on child abduction. Democratic Rep. Jim Moran says the resolution will send a strong signal to Japan that the U.S. Congress «is watching and expecting action.» Christopher Savoie, a father who was arrested last year after going to Japan in a failed attempt to reclaim his two children, joined lawmakers at a news conference. He says Japan should be ashamed for keeping an American parent from seeing a child taken to Japan by a Japanese parent.
