Gov't mission leaves for Pyongyang to gather info on abductees

TOKYO, Japan - A government fact-finding mission leaves Narita aiport, northeast of Tokyo, on Sept. 27 for Pyongyang via Beijing to investigate the North's abductions of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s.

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