National Jun 9, 2016

Lawmaker reveals photos of family reunion involving parents of North Korea abductee

A Japanese lawmaker on Thursday disclosed two photographs showing a 2014 family reunion between the parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted from Japan to North Korea in 1977, and Megumi's daughter, Kim Eun Gyong. The photographs, taken during the March 10-14 meeting that year, ...

National / Politics Mar 24, 2014

Tokyo must use economic muscle in talks with North: Yokota's parents

by Kazuaki Nagata

The parents of Megumi Yokota, kidnapped by North Korea in 1977, express hope Tokyo will use Pyongyang's economic fragility as leverage to resolve the abduction issue at key talks next week.

National May 29, 2013

Pyongyang offered to let Yokota's daughter go '10, but not to Japan

Pyongyang told Tokyo in May 2010 that it would allow Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota's daughter, Kim Eun Gyong, to leave North Korea as long as it wasn't to Japan, a source says.