SADO, Niigata Pref. -- Repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga said here Friday that she is rejoicing over the government-arranged reunion in Indonesia with her family now living in North Korea.

But the prospects that the planned reunion in Indonesia will pave the way for Soga to live with her family in Japan are unclear, because the U.S. regards her husband, Charles Robert Jenkins, as a U.S. Army deserter.

"I am very delighted. Thank you very much," Soga told reporters at a municipal office in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, where she met with Mayor Koichiro Takano to discuss ways in which the local government could help her family after the reunion.