(2)Soga wants her family to live together in Japan

SADO, Japan - Repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga speaks at a press conference in Mano on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture on July 6. ''In the very end, I strongly feel that I want the four of us to live together here in Japan,'' Soga said of her scheduled reunion with members of her family in Jakarta on July 9.

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