Envoys shown film on girl kidnapped by N. Korean agents

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (front R) speaks after the screening for ambassadors in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2011, of a documentary film of a Japanese girl kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1977. Left of Noda are (from R to L) Shigeru Yokota, father of the girl, Megumi, Shigeo Iizuka, head of a group of abductees' relatives, Megumi's mother, Sakie, and Cabinet minister for the abduction issue Kenji Yamaoka.

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