Charles Robert Jenkins, the American husband of repatriated abductee Hitomi Soga, would not necessarily be imprisoned if he came to Japan, even though he will probably face a U.S. court-martial for desertion, government sources claimed Wednesday.
Soga will be reunited with her family later this week in Jakarta.
Tokyo will dispatch a lawyer well-versed in U.S. legislation to the Indonesian capital to explain this to Jenkins as part of efforts to persuade him to come to Japan to live with his wife, the sources said.