(4)Abductees spend their time in hometown

(4)Abductees spend their time in hometown

HAMO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (C), one of five Japanese on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, holds the hand of her nephew Daisuke at a Shinto shrine in Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 19. She is accompanied by her younger sister Tomiko (R). (Kyodo)

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