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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...
...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...
There are people who attend karate exhibitions to marvel at the discipline and focus that the sport demands of its participants, and the ritualism that evokes hundreds of years of history. Then there is karate master Kazuyoshi Ishii, who just likes watching people get their teeth knocked...
...well in the Premier League," he told the daily Yomiuri. A decade ago, the prospect of a Japanese invasion of European football would have been laughable. There were some one-off success stories, such as Yasuhiko Okudera, who played in various divisions in Germany from 1977 to '86, and Kazuyoshi Miura, who appeared for Brazil's Santos and Italy's Genoa in the 1990s. But Japan did not even have its own independent professional circuit until 1993 when the J-League was launched. In the past few years, however, the country's football fortunes have been on the rise...
...prospect of a Japanese invasion of European football fields would have been laughable. There were some one-off success stories: Yasuhiko Okudera who played in various divisions in Germany from 1977-86, including the Cologne F.C. side that contested the 1978 Champion's Cup. In the 1990s, Kazuyoshi Miura played briefly for Brazil's Santos and Italy's Genoa. But Japan did not even have its own independent professional circuit until 1993 when the J-League was launched?and even then the competition's brightest play came from over-the-hill foreign players like England's Gary Lineker...