Hijacker's wife in N. Korea returns passport to gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Yamanaka shows to reporters the passport of Emiko Akagi, the wife of a Japanese plane hijacker living in North Korea, near the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 23 before turning it in to the ministry on behalf of Akagi. Yamanaka, head of the group supporting the hijackers and their families, turned the passport in as part of procedures to enable her to return to Japan in September.

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