THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 16, 2022 at 17:06 JST
Yasushi Chimura, who spent 24 years in North Korea against his will and returned to Japan in 2002, collects signatures to call for the early return of all abductees in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 15. (Tsunetaka Sato)
Oct. 15 marked 20 years since North Korea permitted five Japanese nationals it abducted in the 1970s and ’80s to return to Japan. Since then, no further abductees have been released. [Read More]
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