Kaoru Hasuike and his wife, Yukiko, told Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama on Tuesday that they want to be reunited with their children in Japan in the near future.
"I want to meet with our children in Japan as soon as possible. I trust in the Japanese government," Hasuike, 45, was quoted by other participants in the meeting as saying. The couple's daughter and son are still in North Korea.
The visit was the first by Abe and Nakayama to the Hasuike family home since the abductees returned to their hometown of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 17. They had arrived in Tokyo two days earlier.