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ABDUCTIONS

JAPAN / Politics
Feb 16, 2015
North Korea briefs Japan on its questioning of suspected abductors
Pyongyang briefed Tokyo on its questioning of people suspected of involvement in the abductions of Japanese nationals when the two sides held an informal meeting in late January in Shanghai, according to a Japan-North Korea diplomatic source.
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2015
Japan unwilling to let up on abduction issue
Tokyo will continue pressuring North Korea to release its first report on the new probe into the abduction issue and may revive sanctions if it doesn't.
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2014
Pyongyang abduction investigation panel met with Red Army skyjacking fugitives; show of 'sincerity' seen
North Korea's special committee reinvestigating Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese nationals decades ago held a meeting last month with Red Army Faction fugitives who hijacked a Japan Airlines airplane in 1970 and defected to the North, one of the former members said Tuesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 19, 2014
Osaka court orders that child be returned to Japanese father in Sri Lanka
A 4-year-old who was taken to Japan by its mother must be returned to the father in Sri Lanka, in accordance with the Hague convention on child abduction.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 19, 2014
U.N. panel OKs Japan-EU resolution blasting North Korean rights violations
A United Nations committee passed a draft resolution Tuesday introduced by Japan and the European Union denouncing North Korea's human rights violations and seeking to bring the country's top leaders before the International Criminal Court for possible crimes against humanity.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2014
North Korean schools in Japan soldiering on despite tough times
Like many students in Japan, Kim Yang Sun cycles to school each morning. Unlike most, she then changes into a traditional Korean outfit and studies under portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 7, 2014
Japan denies report that abductee Yokota died of overdose in 1994
The central government on Friday denied a report out of South Korea claiming that Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea at the age of 13 and remains a symbol of the four-decade campaign to recover kidnapping victims, died in 1994 of an overdose.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2014
North Korea claims it will question perpetrators on abductee issue
North Korea told Japan last week that it plans to question its agents who abducted Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s, according to sources familiar with relations between the two countries.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 3, 2014
North Korea urged to show 'convincing evidence' on abduction probe
In talks last week, Japan called on North Korea to provide "convincing evidence" to back the results of its investigations into Japanese nationals abducted decades ago, a government source said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2014
North Korea promises abductee probe will be fair, comprehensive: Suga
This week's abduction talks in North Korea shed little light on the questions Japan wants answered, as Pyongyang offered no new information about what happened to Japanese it kidnapped, the government said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2014
North Korea didn't offer delegation any new info on abductees: source
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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2014
Japan mission arrives N. Korea to scrutinize abduction probe
A Japanese delegation arrived Monday in Pyongyang to assess North Korea's ongoing investigation into the fates of abducted Japanese nationals.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 26, 2014
Government mission to North Korea this week to scrutinize abductees probe
A government delegation will make a four-day visit to North Korea from Monday to assess Pyongyang's investigation of the fate of Japanese nationals abducted decades ago.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2014
North Korea has list of Japanese residents: sources
North Korea has compiled a list of Japanese nationals who remained there after the end of World War II, and of the Japanese wives of pro-Pyongyang Korean residents of Japan who moved to the North under a 1959-1984 repatriation project, sources say.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2014
Abduction mission to N. Korea may leave Monday
Japan has sounded out North Korea about sending a delegation next Monday to check its investigation into the fate of people abducted by Pyongyang decades ago, government sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 20, 2014
Abductees' families still skeptical on sending reps to N. Korea
Many relatives of abductees said Monday they remain skeptical about the government's decision to send officials to Pyongyang to learn firsthand the status of North Korea's latest probe into the victims' fates.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 13, 2014
Soga skeptical of plan to send abduction delegation to Pyongyang
Hitomi Soga, one of the repatriated Japanese abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, took a dim view Sunday of the government's plan to send officials to Pyongyang to get an update on its new probe into the other missing Japanese.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 4, 2014
Japan to subsidize visits to North Korean burial sites of Japanese
The government plans to subsidize Japanese visits to the apparent burial sites of relatives who died in what is now North Korea, officials said.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2014
North Korea envoy says door is open on nuclear issues, rights, abductees
North Korea is ready to resume six-party talks on its nuclear program but must maintain its readiness in the face of joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, a senior envoy in Geneva said on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 29, 2014
North Korea refuses to say when it will deliver abduction report
Japan was unable to find out Monday when North Korea will report its initial findings of a special investigation committee into the fates of at least 12 Japanese nationals abducted in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Rare sequel to 'My Neighbor Totoro' to play at Cannes
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