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Tag Archive: Letter to Megumi

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Dear Megumi, Your Father is Struggling for His Health So He Can See You Again

September 25, 2018 9:27 pm

Sakie Yokota Leave your thoughts

      Dear Megumi,   Japan was hit with record-high temperatures this summer. On top of the searing heat, […]

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Dear Megumi: World Leaders Are Talking, and We Wait Amid Hope and Despair

June 13, 2018 3:53 pm

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota Leave your thoughts

    Shigeru & Sakie Yokota   Hello, Megumi dear.   Each day passes by quickly and we are already […]

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Dear Megumi: We Told the Prime Minister This Might Be Our Last Chance

April 16, 2018 10:53 pm

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota Leave your thoughts

  How are you, dear Megumi?   Another year has flown by so quickly and it is already April. As […]

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Dear Megumi: ‘Be Brave and Hopeful. I Will Find You’

January 17, 2018 1:57 am

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota Leave your thoughts

Megumi and Sakie in 1966.   Dear Megumi,   The new year has finally come. Despite our desperate pleas with […]

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Dear Megumi: President Trump Listened to Your Story, and That Gives Us Hope

November 21, 2017 1:38 am

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota Leave your thoughts

Megumi Yokota, 2nd from the left watches the Sea of Japan in 1976. Next year she was abducted by North […]

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Don’t Lose Interest in Rescuing Japanese Abductees. That’s What North Korea Wants

November 1, 2017 10:30 pm

Sankei Shimbun Leave your thoughts

Abducted and missing people’s photo list   “There is absolutely no sense of urgency. The Parliament isn’t even discussing how […]

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Decades After Abduction, Why Can’t Japan Tap Maritime Self-Defense Force to Rescue Victims?

12:13 am

Sankei Shimbun Leave your thoughts

  It was March 24, 1999, at 12:50 AM. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force-guided missile-destroyer Myoko was in pursuit of […]

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40 Years After Abductions, North Korean Espionage Continues Inside and Outside Japan

October 30, 2017 9:43 pm

Sankei Shimbun 1 Comment

  United States President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania will visit Japan November 5-7. On the 6th, President Trump […]

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Dear Megumi: The Fifth Abductee Was Released, but I Am Still Waiting for You to Return Home

October 25, 2017 5:55 pm

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota Leave your thoughts

Sakie Yokota walks with her children. Megumi (right) was with family 42 years ago.    Dear Megumi,   It’s autumn, […]

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Dear Megumi: One Day, You and Other Kidnap Victims Will Set Foot on Japan Again—If Our Gov’t Works For It

September 22, 2017 1:33 am

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota Leave your thoughts

  Dear Megumi,   In Japan, we are blessed with beautiful autumn skies, and the cosmos flowers are blooming. Our […]

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Letter to Megumi: We hope you’ll return to the Japanese Summer and Your Mother’s Stew

August 14, 2017 5:52 pm

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Megumi(center) had happy time travelling to Hiroshima with her parents Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, and her little brothers Takuya and […]

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