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

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota August 14, 2017

Megumi(center) had happy time travelling to Hiroshima with her parents Shigeru and Sakie Yokota,...

North Korea and Warmbeir's Death: Japan Should Take Its Cue From Angry America

Yoshihisa Komori July 10, 2017

Fred Warmbier, father of Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate student who...

Editorial: Time for Japan to Make the Abduction Issue A Diplomatic Priority

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun June 12, 2017

The abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents decades ago is a...

Letter to Megumi: We Long to Have You Back for the Next Children’s Day

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota May 10, 2017

Megumi Yokota, left is sitting with her mother Sakie who is holding Megumi's twin...

“Megumi” Animé Screened in Brussels to Get EU Support for Abductees

Hideo Miyashita May 6, 2017

The Japanese Mission to the European Union (EU) on Wednesday night, May 3,...

Is Megumi Yokota the Key to Ending the Korean Standoff?

Jason Morgan, Reitaku University April 19, 2017

This week, in the wake of increasingly shrill North Korean threats, Vice President Mike...

Editorial: The Letters to Megumi Should be Read by All

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun April 17, 2017

The Sankei Shimbun has begun publishing the series “Letters to Megumi,” written by parents...

A Letter to Megumi: “Forty years have gone by without you… Don’t ever give up, you are going to come home”

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota April 17, 2017

Megumi, hello. Spring has come round again. It is the season of graduations and...

“We will bring the abductees home” - An Exclusive Interview with Prime Minister Abe

Masahiko Morimoto, Sankei Shimbun March 13, 2017

March 2017 marks twenty years since the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North...

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Reopening the Abduction Case Files - Part Five: "Something strange is happening along the Sea of Japan"

The Sankei Shimbun February 24, 2017

This article originally appeared in the Sankei Shimbun morning edition, September 4, 2012. ...

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Reopening the Abduction Case Files – Part Four: "Maybe our child is alive too..."

The Sankei Shimbun February 23, 2017

This article originally appeared in the Sankei Shimbun morning edition, September 3, 2012. All...

Editorial: Time for the United States and Japan to Cooperate on the Abduction Issue

Editorial Board, The Sankei Shimbun February 22, 2017

North Korea chose the moment of the U.S.-Japan summit meeting to launch intermediate-range ballistic...

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