Funeral held for mother of missing abductee Ichikawa

Funeral held for mother of missing abductee Ichikawa

KANOYA, Japan - Kenichi Ichikawa (L), elder brother of Shuichi Ichikawa, who was one of the Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s and 1980s, makes a speech during the funeral of Tomi Ichikawa (photo in frame), the abductee's mother who died at age 91 on Nov. 15 of subarachnoid hemorrhage at a hospital in Kagoshima Prefecture.

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