Word: hitomi
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...Jenkins' life changed. He was allowed to move into a house by himself. Shortly thereafter, the government brought him a young Japanese nurse, telling him to teach her English. Hitomi Soga had been abducted from her home on Sado Island in Japan two years earlier and bitterly hated the North Koreans. After 38 days, they were married and eventually had two children, now 19-year-old Brinda and 21-year-old Mika...
...looming extradition battle with the U.S. Among those freed is Charles Jenkins, who is accused by Washington of deserting from the U.S. Army and defecting to North Korea in 1965. On July 18, Jenkins was expected to land at Tokyo's Haneda Airport with his wife, former abductee Hitomi Soga, 45, and their children Mika, 21, and Belinda...
REUNITED. HITOMI SOGA, 45, a Japanese woman abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, and her husband, CHARLES ROBERT JENKINS, 64, a former U.S. Army sergeant accused of deserting to the Stalinist state in 1965, and their daughters MIKA, 21, and BELINDA, 18; in Jakarta. Soga, who was kidnapped so she could teach Japanese to North Korean spies, hadn't seen her husband or daughters since October 2002, when Pyongyang let her and four other abductees return to Japan. When the family arrived at a Jakarta luxury hotel swarming with journalists, Jenkins, who has lived in North Korea for four...
...citizens whom North Korea abducted in the 1970s and '80s. When Koizumi returned to Tokyo later that same night with five of the eight family members, his gamble?at least in part?seemed to have paid off. Still left behind, however, was the family of 45-year-old abductee Hitomi Soga: her 64-year-old American husband, Charles Robert Jenkins, and their two daughters, 20-year-old Mika and 18-year-old Belinda. At a press conference in Pyongyang, Koizumi said he spent about an hour trying to persuade Jenkins to get on the plane, but Jenkins resisted because...
...much fun" using chopsticks to swirl paper-thin slices of beef in the bubbling cauldron of water (the Japanese word shabu-shabu comes from the splashing sound). Local reviews call shabu-shabu "great date food," which puzzles Niki. "It's not for couples," he says. His wife Hitomi explains, "It's messy...