Soga expresses thanks to Indonesia for reunion

Soga expresses thanks to Indonesia for reunion

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Kyoko Nakayama, adviser to the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat on the abduction issue, released a message from repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga about the July 9 reunion in Jakarta with her American husband Charles Jenkins and their two North Korea-born daughters at a Jakarta hotel on July 10. Soga expressed gratitude to the Indonesian government and people for their role in realizing the reunion. Nakayama was accompanying Soga. (Kyodo)

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