Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese repatriated to Japan in October 2002 after being abducted to North Korea, will be reunited with her American husband and their two daughters this week in Jakarta, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Monday.
It will be the first time Soga has seen her husband, Charles Robert Jenkins, and their daughters, Mika and Belinda, since she returned to Japan with four other abductees 21 months ago. The meeting is scheduled for Friday.
Soga will take a commercial flight to Jakarta on Thursday. The Japanese government is planning to charter a plane to pick up Jenkins and the daughters in Pyongyang on Friday, Hosoda said. Cabinet Secretariat adviser Kyoko Nakayama will accompany Soga.