
National Mar 14, 2022
Japanese abductees' families ask U.S. envoy to help resolve issue
Members of the families' group pleaded their case in the roughly one-hour meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.
Japanese abductees' families ask U.S. envoy to help resolve issue
Members of the families' group pleaded their case in the roughly one-hour meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.
How Japan-North Korea relations changed under Kim Jong Un
There has been a widening gap between Japan and North Korea since Kim Jong Un took power and a hardening of policy stances on both sides.
Families renew resolve to see abductees returned from North Korea
Some 800 people, including family members of North Korean abductees and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, gathered in Tokyo on Sunday where they called for their immediate return.
Suga needs new tack on the North Korea abductee issue
With the abduction issue continuing to inform the Suga administration's North Korea policy, the government must adjust its approach if it hopes for progress.
Jenkins, who spent nearly 40 years in North Korea as a prisoner, lived in Japan with his family after his release in 2004.
The U.N. Security Council on Monday took up the issue of human rights in North Korea, with the body's human rights chief saying the worsening security situation in the region is hurting efforts to bring home Japanese nationals abducted by the reclusive state. "No progress ...
The parents of a girl who has come to symbolize Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and '80s voiced frustration with the lack of progress on the issue Wednesday — 40 years to the date since their daughter was kidnapped ...
Trump meets abductees' kin and pledges to work with Abe to bring them back to Japan
In a half-hour meeting, the U.S. and Japanese leaders lend an ear to the Japanese families who have been waiting for their kidnapped loved ones to return.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he and U.S. President Donald Trump affirmed Thursday in New York they will work together to call on the international community to strengthen pressure on North Korea, including through the stringent enforcement of U.N. sanctions. In light of the threat ...
Former victim alarmed by declining interest in North Korean abductions of Japanese
Hitomi Soga, a former abductee to North Korea, on Wednesday voiced concern about the waning public interest in the issue. "I feel the public is gradually losing interest in the abduction issue," Soga, 58, told a news conference in the Sea of Japan island city ...
Abe makes fresh resolution to bring back Japanese abducted by North Korea
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Wednesday he had made a new resolution to bring back as soon as possible Japanese nationals kidnapped decades ago by North Korea. Abe made the statement after meeting with members of a group representing families of abductees at the prime ...
Japan to broadcast radio program for North Korea abductees on more frequencies
The government plans to broadcast its shortwave radio program aimed at Japanese abductees in North Korea on more frequencies in the next fiscal year, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said. The program, "Furusato no Kaze" ("Wind from the Homeland"), is broadcast in Japanese and Korean, ...