ILEA000333935: Abductees' relatives

International anti-nuke meeting in Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (far R) delivers a speech during a meeting with members of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 22, 2024. The group, set up under the initiative of Kishida, a lawmaker from a constituency in Hiroshima who has pushed his vision of a nuclear-free world since becoming prime minister in 2021, held its fourth meeting the day before in Yokohama near Tokyo.

Abductee's families meet Japan PM Kishida

Takuya Yokota (C), head of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, holds a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from R) seeking the return of the abductees at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 10, 2024. The group members' meeting with Kishida took place following their recent trip to Washington to ask for U.S. help.

Meeting between PM Kishida and abductees' families

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (facing camera) hears from Takuya Yokota, head of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, during a meeting with group members at the premier's office in Tokyo on March 4, 2024. Yokota is a younger brother of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 aged 13.

Meeting between PM Kishida and abductees' families

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (front, far L) speaks to members of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, at the premier's office in Tokyo on March 4, 2024.

Meeting between PM Kishida and abductees' families

Sakie Yokota (2nd from R), 88, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea at age 13 in 1977, speaks to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on March 4, 2024. Kishida met with Yokota and other members of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.