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...Japanese citizens in the 1970s and held them for decades. He tried repairing the damage by sending five of the abductees home in the following months. The remaining eight, according to North Korea, had died. Last November, Pyongyang returned to Japan the cremated ashes and bone fragments of Megumi Yokota, who was kidnapped in her hometown of Niigata in 1977 at the age of 13, and allegedly committed suicide in 1994. Tokyo ran DNA tests on the remains and announced they weren't Yokota's. Public anger ran white hot: conservative politicians and Yokota's parents called for sanctions against...
...turns out the remains might have been Yokota's after all. In February, the British scientific journal Nature published an article in which the scientist who did the tests admitted they were inconclusive-and that the remains could have been contaminated with foreign DNA. "The bones are like stiff sponges that can absorb anything," Teikyo University DNA analyst Yoshii Tomio told a Nature interviewer. The technique Yoshii used, known as "nested PCR," also raised doubts: professional forensics labs in the U.S. don't use it because of the high risk of contamination, according to Terry Melton, a DNA expert...
...result has clearly shown how cruel, cold-blooded and inhumane the Kim Jong Il regime is." SAKIE YOKOTA, mother of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese student abducted to North Korea in 1977, on Pyongyang's attempt to pass off other people's remains as those of her daughter...
...psychedelic trance-noise-rock performances. This V8rdoms-esque record, though officially released with the moniker Boredoms, features their godfather, Eye Yamatsuka (a.k.a. Eye Yamantaka, or just eYe, best known for his legendarily abrasive/invasive noise band Hanatarash, translated, “the snot-nosed”), drummer and singer Yoshimi Yokota (a.k.a. Yoshimi P-We, the screeching, screaming Yoshimi featured on the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 2”), and two additional drummers...
Thompson and former HSPH researcher Fumie Yokota compared MPAA ratings and rating reasons for 1,906 films released between Jan. 1, 1992 and Dec. 31, 2003 with information about movie content from two independent resources, Kids-in-Mind and Screen...