A group of abductees' families on Thursday urged the government to take concrete steps to ensure the return of their loved ones from North Korea this year. The Association of Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea made the demand at a news conference in ...
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 ...
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, ...
Katsunobu Kato, minister in charge of the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, on Saturday called for the return of all of Japanese abductees. "By leveraging pressure and through dialogue, we need to get North Korea to take concrete actions toward the return ...
A woman whose daughter was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977 at the age of 13 has called on the Japanese government for greater urgency over bringing her home. Sakie Yokota was speaking Wednesday, a day before her 80th birthday. "We have done everything we ...
A U.N. special rapporteur on North Korea, Marzuki Darusman, will make a five-day visit to Japan from Monday to gather information on human rights abuses by Pyongyang, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said. "I will use this mission to Japan to ...
Abduction victim Megumi Yokota was likely sent to a spy training facility in Pyongyang soon after she was taken from Japan to North Korea in 1977 when she was 13, according to a South Korean source. South Korean abductees in their late teens were being ...
Japan has urged North Korea to continue its investigation into the fates of Japanese citizens abducted by agents from the reclusive country after Pyongyang conveyed to Tokyo that its probe into the issue found no new information on the missing, sources familiar with bilateral ...
North Korea has nearly completed a fresh investigation it promised Japan last year into the fates of Japanese citizens allegedly abducted by the country decades ago, according to a senior North Korean diplomat. "What is obvious is that (North Korea) has conducted the investigation in ...
North Korea failed to include information about Japanese abductees in a report it presented to Japan during negotiations in the spring, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Japan rejected the report, in the absence of information about 12 Japanese whom it recognizes as ...
Pyongyang should realize that carrying out its promised probe into the abductions of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents is the best way to gain Japan's trust.
North Korea proposed in late October that visiting Japanese officials meet with their nationals who had stayed on in what is now North Korea after the end of World War II and Japanese women married to pro-Pyongyang Korean residents of Japan who moved to ...
