Japan to add missing man to list of abductees by N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese government said April 25 it will add Minoru Tanaka (in undated file photo), a noodle shop employee in Kobe who disappeared 1978 at the age of 28, to a list of Japanese whom it officially recognizes as having been abducted by North Korea, bringing the number of unresolved abduction victims to 11.

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