This essay is dedicated to Mr. Shigeru Yokota (1932-2020), who fought for victims abducted by North Korea. “Congratulations on your wedding! There will...
It saddens us deeply to report the death of Shigeru Yokota on June 5. He was 87. Yokota was the father of Megumi...
(This letter is part of an ongoing series of letters written by Sakie Yokota to her daughter Megumi. To read other parts of the series...
Shigeru & Sakie Yokota Hello, Megumi dear. Each day passes by quickly and we are already coming to the end of the...
Charles Jenkins, former United States military deserter, and the husband of North Korean abductee Hitomi Soga (58 by now), died of a lethal arrhythmia at...
At a joint press conference on Monday, November 6th, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and United States President Donald Trump described the relationship between the...
Families of Japanese abducted by North Korean agents decades ago met with United States President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this Monday afternoon,...
United States President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania will visit Japan November 5-7. On the 6th, President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will...
Dear Megumi, In Japan, we are blessed with beautiful autumn skies, and the cosmos flowers are blooming. Our home in Niigata had beautiful cosmos,...
Megumi(center) and her little brothers before she was abducted Hello, Megumi. Here in Japan we have been having one really hot day after another....
It has been four decades at least since dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted by North Korean state agents in Japan, yet the problem has...
Megumi(center) had happy time travelling to Hiroshima with her parents Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, and her little brothers Takuya and Tetsuya. Hello, Megumi. ...
