Soga believes mother still alive and waiting to meet

Soga believes mother still alive and waiting to meet

MANO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese abducted to North Korea in 1978 and now back in Japan, reads out a statement at a news conference at the office of the Mano municipal government on the Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture on Dec. 28. In the statement she said she believes her missing mother, also believed to have been abducted, is still alive and is waiting to meet with her again. (Pool photo)

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