(6)Abductees spend their time in hometown

HAMO, Japan - Clad in kimono, Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, attends a ''Shichi-go-san'' ceremony for her nephew Daisuke at a Shinto shrine in Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 19. (Pool photo)

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