Soga visits hospital where she used to work

Soga visits hospital where she used to work

MANO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, who is on her first visit in 24 years to her hometown of Mano on Sadogashima Island in Niigata Prefecture, poses with a nurse's cap at a hospital in the town of Kanai on the island on Oct. 23. Soga used to work at the hospital before being abducted to North Korea in 1978.

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