Parents of missing Japanese say lawmaker tried to shut them up

Parents of missing Japanese say lawmaker tried to shut them up

KOBE, Japan - Akihiro (L) and Kayoko Arimoto, the parents of Keiko Arimoto, who Japan believes was abducted in Europe and taken to Pyongyang in 1983 at age 23, attend a gathering in Kobe on March 24. Kayoko said that Masaaki Nakayama, a House of Representatives member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, told them Keiko had been abducted by another Japanese and that North Korea was not involved, so they should keep quiet about the case.

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