The fate of children after an international marriage breaks up is gaining increasing attention globally and nationally. Often, when such marriages end in divorce, parents take their children back to their home country and the other parent ends up estranged from the children. When children are brought back to Japan by a parent after an international marriage ends, it sometimes leads to family conflicts because Japan has not signed a...

  Announces resignation in face of low approval, economic turmoil   By William L. Watts, MarketWatch Last update: 9:13 a.m. EDT Sept. 1, 2008   LONDON (MarketWatch) — Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda unexpectedly announced his resignation Monday after less than a year in office. Fukuda, beset by low approval ratings and an economy seen on the verge of recession, said efforts to overhaul the nation’s economy...