Soga, daughters visit Jenkins at Tokyo hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga (R) and her two North Korean-born daughters -- Mika (2nd from R) and Belinda (L) -- head to a bus station on their way to a hospital in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward where Soga's husband Charles Jenkins is staying. (Pool photo)

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