Ex-abductee Chimura serves as Japanese-Korean interpreter

Ex-abductee Chimura serves as Japanese-Korean interpreter

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (R), who was abducted by North Korea in 1978 and repatriated to Japan in 2002, serves as a Japanese-Korean interpreter for the first time in a public event in Obama, Fukui Prefecture on Oct. 11. Working for his employer, Obama Mayor Toshio Murakami, the 48-year-old Chimura translated his address to roughly 90 participants in a gathering on Japan-Korea friendship.

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