Following Wednesday's emotional meeting with former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui, relatives of abductee Yaeko Taguchi urged top government officials Thursday to build on the momentum and press to learn the fate of Japanese abducted by Pyongyang's agents in the 1970s and '80s.

Taguchi was taken in June 1978 at the age of 22.

In a meeting with Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura at the prime minister's office, Taguchi's brother, Shigeo Iizuka, and her son, Koichiro, who was adopted by Iizuka, expressed their gratitude to the Japanese and South Korean governments for arranging the face to face meeting with Kim, which they had been seeking for five years.