(1)5th survivor on N. Korea list can be Niigata nurse

(1)5th survivor on N. Korea list can be Niigata nurse

TOKYO, Japan - A person on a North Korean list of missing Japanese still alive and living in North Korea is probably Hitomi Soga (file photo), a female nurse who went missing from an island in the Sea of Japan in 1978, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda suggested at a news conference on Sept. 20.

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