A Japanese man who disappeared while fishing in the Sea of Japan in 1963 and later turned up in North Korea said Monday he hopes to visit Japan.
"I am planning to go to Japan for a visit," Takeshi Terakoshi, 52, told reporters in Pyongyang, where he lives.
Terakoshi also told senior officials of the Japanese Red Cross Society and Foreign Ministry of his plan during their meeting earlier in the day at a Pyongyang hotel.
"It has been 40 years," he said. "I would like to go to Japan sometime."