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...hard enough for Shigeru Yokota to know that his only daughter Megumi had suddenly disappeared one day in 1977, almost certainly kidnapped off the street like a string of other Japanese by North Korean agents. But to turn for help to his country's officials?the very people responsible for the safety of Japanese citizens like Megumi?and be met with indifference, or worse: that was a special kind of pain. "At the beginning the government was not supportive at all," says the 73-year-old Yokota, sitting in the lobby of his apartment complex in rainy Kawasaki, a city...
...successor, another leader may bear even more responsibility for boosting Abe to the premiership: Kim Jong Il. As deputy cabinet secretary, Abe accompanied Koizumi on his historic trip to Pyongyang in 2002. After Kim shocked Japan by admitting that North Korea had kidnapped Japanese nationals, including Megumi Yokota, Abe became the face of Tokyo's response. When a group of surviving abductees visited Japan, Abe insisted they not return to the North. "From then on he was very popular on TV and among the general public," says Jun Iio, professor of government at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies...
...until he was 13 years old.” Though her parents sent her to the prestigious Georgetown Day School in D.C. and later to Harvard, her childhood was certainly less than idyllic.“She’d had a very difficult childhood,” said Megumi “Mimi” Oka ’81, who lived two doors down from Randall in Pennypacker Hall and has been her best friend ever since. “She’d had a difficult relationship with her mother, who was really not a good mother...
...Disputed Remains "Bones of Contention" [April 4] reported that the North Korean government returned to Japan the cremated ashes and bone fragments of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl who was kidnapped by the North Koreans in the 1970s and later committed suicide. After running DNA tests, Japanese officials said the remains were not Yokota's, and they blocked North Korean rice shipments in protest. But now they have announced that the remains might be Yokata's. I am deeply shocked that I have heard nothing of that in the Japanese media. From the very beginning, Japan has handled the case...
...Megumi R. Gordon ’05 and Aidan S. Madigan-Curtis ’07, it was the last option. They ran alongside over 20,000 others and numerous students from Harvard to compete in the 109th annual Boston Marathon...