Soga speaks ahead of anniversary of her return from N. Korea

Soga speaks ahead of anniversary of her return from N. Korea

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, a repatriated Japanese victim of North Korean abduction, speaks at a news conference in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, July 15 ahead of the anniversary of her return to Japan on July 18, 2004, with her husband and two daughters.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001110087
  • Registered date
  • 2005/7/15 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2005 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 1228 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 467.44(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

    Men Found on Boat in North East Japan Say they came From N. Korea

    AKITA, Japan,-Nov. 24 Kyodo - A boat carrying eight men claiming to be fishermen from North Korea has washed ashore in the north eastern Japan prefecture of Akita, police said Friday. The police received a call from a resident in the city of Yurihonjo around 11:30 p.m. Thursday about suspicious men at the seaside. They later found the men on the wooden boat at a nearby marina. The men had no life-threatening injuries and appeared to speak Korean, the police said. They have been taken into protective custody. Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, told reporters after a Cabinet meeting that the men have said they were fishing before the boat broke down and washed ashore. In November 2015 a wooden boat drifted ashore in the city of Noshiro in Akita and skeletal remains of two men were found inside the vessel and nearby.
      Ex-abductee Hasuike wins nonfiction award

      Ex-abductee Hasuike wins nonfiction award

      TOKYO, Japan - Repatriated abductee Kaoru Hasuike (file photo) won an award Aug. 27, 2009, for a nonfiction work that features his experience of being abducted to North Korea and living in the reclusive country. Hasuike went missing along with his girlfriend, Yukiko Okudo, in Niigata Prefecture in July 1978, and returned to Japan in October 2002 with Okudo, to whom he got married in North Korea, after Pyongyang admitted to past abductions of Japanese citizens. (Kyodo)
        N. Korean defector sues Chongryon over emigration program

        N. Korean defector sues Chongryon over emigration program

        OSAKA, Japan - Yumiko Chiba speaks at a news conference in Osaka on June 13 after filing an 11 million yen damages suit against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, over its responsibility for a program that promoted the emigration of Korean residents of Japan to North Korea. Chiba, 47, moved to North Korea with her parents in 1963 under the program and defected from the country in 2003. (Kyodo)
          Abduction victim Megumi Yokota's photo exhibition opens in N.Y.

          Abduction victim Megumi Yokota's photo exhibition opens in N.Y.

          NEW YORK, United States - A photo exhibition featuring Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl abducted by North Korea in 1977, opened March 13 in New York as part of her family's attempt to raise global awareness of abductions by North Korean agents in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
            Abduction victim Megumi Yokota's photo exhibition opens in N.Y.

            Abduction victim Megumi Yokota's photo exhibition opens in N.Y.

            NEW YORK, United States - A photo exhibition featuring Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl abducted by North Korea in 1977, opened March 13 in New York as part of her family's attempt to raise global awareness of abductions by North Korean agents in the late 1970s to early 1980s.
              Iizuka named as new head of group of abductees' kin

              Iizuka named as new head of group of abductees' kin

              TOKYO, Japan - Shigeo Iizuka (R), vice chairman of the group of relatives of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, speaks at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel Nov. 24 after he was named as the group's new leader to replace Shigeru Yokota (2nd from R). Yokota's daughter Megumi was kidnapped by Pyongyang in 1977 when she was 13, while Iizuka is an elder brother of Yaeko Taguchi, who was taken to N. Korea in 1978 when she was 22.
                Japanese NGO donates medical supplies to N. Korea flood victims

                Japanese NGO donates medical supplies to N. Korea flood victims

                TOKYO, Japan - An employee (R) of Japan International Volunteer Center, a Japanese nonprofit organization, hands over medical supplies to Kangwon Province People's Hospital in Wonsan, North Korea, on Oct. 26. According to JVC officials, JVC delivered 2.4 million yen worth of confectioneries and medical supplies to flood victims in North Korea in late October. The money was collected through public donations in Japan, the officials say.
                  Ex-abductee Soga voices gratitude for support

                  Ex-abductee Soga voices gratitude for support

                  SADO, Japan - Former abductee Hitomi Soga speaks at a news conference in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 17 as she marks the fifth anniversary of her repatriation from North Korea. Soga and four other Japanese abductees, abducted by North Korean agents in three separate cases in 1978 from Niigata and Fukui prefectures, were repatriated to Japan on Oct. 15, 2002.
                    Japan calls on N. Korea to resolve abduction issue on anniversary

                    Japan calls on N. Korea to resolve abduction issue on anniversary

                    NIIGATA, Japan - Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, the parents of Megumi, who was abducted to North Korea from Niigata 30 years ago when she was 13, attend a meeting in Niigata on Oct. 15 calling for public support on the abduction issue. Oct. 15 marks the fifth anniversary of the repatriation of five Japanese abductees from North Korea and Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura renewed calls for North Korea to resolve the abduction issue. North Korea says Megumi committed suicide, a claim rejected by Japan.
                      Kin ask gov't to seek early resolution of N. Korea abduction issue

                      Kin ask gov't to seek early resolution of N. Korea abduction issue

                      TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura (2nd L) meets with the parents of Megumi Yokota and relatives of other Japanese abducted to North Korea at the prime minister's office on Oct. 5 where the families urged the government to seek an early resolution to the abduction issue. Sitting opposite to Machimura are Megumi's father Shigeru Toyota (4th R) and his wife Sakie (3rd R).