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...DIED. Takahiro Tamura, 77, prolific Japanese film and television star; in Tokyo. Born into an acting family?his father, Tsumasaburo Bando, was a legend of early samurai films?Tamura appeared in more than 90 roles, starring in the World War II melodrama Nijushi no Hitomi (Twenty-Four Eyes), which won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1955, and in the 1970 U.S.-Japan co-production, Tora! Tora! Tora!, about the attack on Pearl Harbor...
...prison; he left to ensure his daughters' freedom. He did the right thing. Here in Japan, Jenkins is praised, since he was able to get his Japanese wife, an abductee, back to her home country. Copies of his memoir in Japanese can be found at any bookstore. His wife, Hitomi Soga, is a national hero, having survived 20 years of abduction mainly under his protection. Jenkins is a hero not because he has exonerated himself but because he did not let his past cowardice keep him from doing the brave thing for his family today. Americans should be demonstrating that...
...included anyone other than himself, his wife and their two daughters. Or so they thought. In their haste, the North Korean censors missed a 1984 photo taken in Wonsan on the country's east coast. At first glance, it is an innocuous family snap of Jenkins with his wife Hitomi Soga and their first daughter Mika during a rare trip to the beach. But at the left of the frame, another sunbather is visible. Jenkins has identified the woman as Anocha Panjoy, a Thai citizen he says was abducted by North Korea in 1978. If true, it would represent...
...might be imagined, these unions weren't love stories in any traditional sense. In Jenkins' case, the government in 1980 brought a young Japanese nurse to his door, instructing him to teach her English. Hitomi Soga, 19 years Jenkins' junior, had been abducted from her home on Sado Island in Japan two years earlier. Jenkins says they quickly fell in love, and that his feelings for Soga saved his life. "When I met her," Jenkins says, "my life changed a lot. Me and her together--I knew we could make it in North Korea. And we did. Twenty-two years...
...might be imagined, these unions weren't love stories in any traditional sense. In Jenkins' case, the government in 1980 brought a young Japanese nurse to his door, instructing him to teach her English. Hitomi Soga, 19 years Jenkins' junior, had been abducted from her home on Sado Island in Japan two years earlier. Jenkins says they quickly fell in love, and that his feelings for Soga saved his life. "When I met her," Jenkins says, "my life changed a lot. Me and her together?I knew we could make it in North Korea. And we did. Twenty-two years...