Panel on abduction issue holds meeting

Hiroshi Imazu (3rd from R), chief of the lower house panel on the issue of abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korea, addresses a meeting with local officials of the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima at the prefectural office on Sept. 8, 2016. The brother of an abductee who had been kidnapped in the prefecture in 1978 also attended the meeting to seek further government efforts to solve the issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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