By SOKICHI KURODA/ Staff Writer
October 5, 2020 at 18:05 JST
Sakie Yokota tells reporters Oct. 1 that she always spends Oct. 5, her daughter Megumi's birthday, recalling family life when they were all together. (Tatsuya Shimada)
Just as she does every Oct. 5, the mother of Japan's most famous abduction victim, Megumi Yokota, held a modest celebration at home to mark the birthday of the daughter she last saw as a 13-year-old in 1977 before she was spirited away to North Korea. [Read More]
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