Christopher Savoie, a 38-year-old American arrested in Fukuoka earlier this week for allegedly abducting his two children from his Japanese ex-wife, took them because she did not have legal custody, his lawyer told The Japan Times on Friday.
Savoie said his former wife, Noriko, abducted the children from their home in Tennessee.
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