(1)Abductees visit relatives, graves

MANO, Japan - Hitomi Soga bows in front of her family's grave in the town of Mano in Niigata Prefecture's island of Sadogashima on Oct. 18, one day after she returned to the town for the first time since being abducted to North Korea in 1978. (Pool photo)

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