Abductee Hasuike visits old school

TOKYO, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike (R), one of five Japanese nationals who returned to Japan last year after being abducted to North Korea in 1978, eats with his wife Yukiko at his alma mater Chuo University on March 14. The couple toured its Tama campus in Tokyo's Hachioji at the invitation of a group created by students and alumni in 1998 to try to rescue Hasuike from the North.

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