Word: terakoshi
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...RETURNED. TAKESHI TERAKOSHI, 53, Japanese citizen who in 1963 vanished with two of his uncles while fishing off the Noto peninsula in the Sea of Japan, and who was revealed in 1987 to be alive in North Korea; for a week-long visit to Japan as part of a labor union delegation. Terakoshi, whose mother has visited him in North Korea 15 times since 1987, denies having been abducted, saying he and his uncles were rescued by a North Korean ship. It is his first trip home since disappearing...
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