Police to add Soga, her mother to abduction list

Police to add Soga, her mother to abduction list

TOKYO, Japan - The National Police Agency is preparing to add Hitomi Soga (L) and her mother, Miyoshi (R), who disappeared together from Niigata's Sadogashima Island in 1978, to its list of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea, police sources said Oct. 7.

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