Soga expresses anxiety after living year alone in Japan

MANO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese North Korea abducted in 1978 who returned to Japan just a year ago, speaks to reporters in her hometown of Mano on Sadogashima Island in Niigata Prefecture on Oct. 15.

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