Hundreds of children abducted prior to the Hague Convention signing were knowingly abandoned by U.S. State Department authorities from the outset of negotiations. This was a price that U.S. officials were more than willing to pay over the vociferous objections of parents in order to set the weak, international-law treaty ostensibly commiting the parties to a path against abduction into place in order to ease the issue back out of the public eye to the benefit of U.S. and Japanese corporate and military interests. … More Setting the Record Straight: State-Sanctioned Child Abduction Under American and Japanese Auspices