(1)Group adds two more to list of would-be abductees

(1)Group adds two more to list of would-be abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiro Araki, who heads the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), speaks to reporters in Tokyo on March 10. The group added two people -- Koichi Kawashima, who went missing from Yokohama in 1982 at age 23, and Masateru Maegami, who disappeared from Hokkaido in 1977 at age 20 -- to its list of those it believes highly likely to have been abducted by North Korea.

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