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...traffic light by her home in Niigata, a badminton racquet stuffed in a white bag and a black schoolbag clutched in her hand. Then she vanished without a trace. That was 25 years ago. Her mother Sakie thought she would never know where her 13-year-old daughter had gone, until she read a series of articles in a newspaper three years later suggesting that North Korean agents were snatching Japanese citizens off the streets and whisking them to their motherland. Sakie's suspicion turned into conviction when a North Korean defector to South Korea told officials he had seen...
...During the Pyongyang summit, Japanese diplomat Kazuyoshi Umemoto met with Megumi's putative daughter and a man who introduced himself as Kaoru Hasuike, as well as with three other people who said they were abductees. Hasuike told Umemoto that he and Okudo now have two children and that he works in a research center in Pyongyang. He added that he's uncertain about returning home. The idea that anyone would voluntarily remain in North Korea?with its totalitarianism and poverty?has aroused suspicions in Japan...
...Relatives of the victims aren't buying anything North Korea says about the abductees. They want independent confirmation that the people on Kim's list are who the North Koreans claim they are. Umemoto's only proof that he was speaking to Megumi Yokota's daughter, for instance, was a dated photo of Megumi and an old badminton racquet. Yet the Yokotas have not given in to despair. If the girl in Pyongyang really is their granddaughter, says Megumi's father Shigeru, he and his wife are ready to go there to meet her. "We'd like to find...
Robert Harold, Erika’s father, made the trek from Illinois to Atlantic City to support his daughter in the event. Tired by two days of endless interviews, Harold wearily described his daughter?...
...TIME: Why did you write this book? Zhang: After I'd made it to America, I became very ill. The doctor diagnosed me with cancer. I felt I should get this story written down as something to leave behind for my daughter. After her father is dead, how else would she know what he did at Tiananmen Square?how else would she know why we went there ... I was in the hospital for a year in the U.S. and a second year in Taiwan, and it was during this time that I wrote the book. And then I started...