(2)Soga arrives in Tokyo before family reunion in Indonesia

TOKYO, Japan - Repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga (R) shakes hands with Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 7 ahead of traveling to Indonesia to be reunited there with her husband and two daughters who live in North Korea.

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