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Rescuing Japanese Abductees Reaches Crucial Stage
A climactic battle is coming for rescuing Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea. In the first ever United […]
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Tokyo Symposium Pushes for Resolution of North Korean Abductions, Human Rights Violations
The powerful voices of the victims of North Korea’s four decades of human rights abuses rang clearly in Iino […]
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Abductions by North Korea: International Issue is Victim Families’ Personal Sorrow
Takuya Yokota’s eyes were damp as he took the podium in a Reitaku University auditorium on Saturday, November […]
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Dear Megumi, Your Father is Struggling for His Health So He Can See You Again
Dear Megumi, Japan was hit with record-high temperatures this summer. On top of the searing heat, […]
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‘Pain with No End’: Why Abduction of Japanese by North Korea Should be Resolved Now
A new true-to-life film on the abduction of Japanese by North Korea is out. And Pain with No End […]
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PM Abe: It’s Now Between Japan and North Korea to Resolve Abductions Issue
JAPAN Forward After thanking United States President Donald Trump for supposedly “stating in clear terms” to […]
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Dear Megumi: World Leaders Are Talking, and We Wait Amid Hope and Despair
Shigeru & Sakie Yokota Hello, Megumi dear. Each day passes by quickly and we are already […]
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EDITORIAL: Japan-U.S. Summit Should Be a Wake-up Call to Kim Jong-un on Abduction Issue
The Sankei Shimbun On the afternoon of June 7—predawn on June 8, Japan time—Prime Minister Shinzo Abe […]
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Opposition’s Shu Watanabe Talks About the North Korean Abductions, His New Party, and Constitutional Reform
The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward reporter Mizuki Okada interviewed a veteran lawmaker of the House of Representatives […]
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Former Abduction Issue Minister Eriko Yamatani: ‘This Time, The Feeling is Completely Different’
This past year has been the second most momentous in the long history of the abductions of Japanese […]
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(UPDATED) Abduction Issue: Trump Vows to Do His Best for Japan — Abe
United States President Donald Trump has promised to take up the decades-old issue of the abduction of Japanese citizens […]
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Dear Megumi: We Told the Prime Minister This Might Be Our Last Chance
How are you, dear Megumi? Another year has flown by so quickly and it is already April. As […]