U.S. ambassador visits site Japanese girl was abducted to N. Korea

U.S. ambassador visits site Japanese girl was abducted to N. Korea

NIIGATA, Japan - Shigeru (far R) and Sakie (C) Yokota point to the beach in Niigata , where their daughter Megumi was believed to have been taken to North Korea aboard a ship after being abducted in 1977, for U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer (2nd from L) on March 16.

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