Japanese wife of Korean in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Mitsuko Minakawa (front), a Japanese woman who moved to North Korea in 1960 with her Korean husband, is pictured at a hotel in Pyongyang on April 19, 2012, shortly before being interviewed there by Kyodo News. Minakawa, 73, expressed hope for early normalization of bilateral relations, saying, ''We'd like to meet our kin in Japan and visit graves of our parents and relatives whenever we like,'' in summing up the view of Japanese wives living in North Korea.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001168817

Registered date
2012/4/19 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2012 Kyodo News

Media size
2083 × 3000 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
1.06(MB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Japanese group heads for N. Korea to visit graves of kin

TOKYO, Japan - A group of Japanese citizens are pictured at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 14, 2014, before their departure for Pyongyang via Beijing to pay their respects at the graves of relatives who died in North Korea around the end of World War II. About 34,600 Japanese are believed to have died of hunger and disease around the end of the war in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, which was under Japanese rule from 1910 to 1945.

9 Japanese leave for N. Korea to visit kin's graves

TOKYO, Japan - Kuniyasu Ishihara (far L), one of nine Japanese leaving for North Korea to visit burial sites believed to contain the remains of their relatives who died in what is now North Korea around the end of World War II, meets the press at Tokyo's Haneda airport on June 25, 2014, before their departure.

Returning to Japan after visit to N. Korea burial sites

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A group of Japanese nationals arrive at Pyongyang's international airport on Oct. 30, 2012, to return to Japan via Beijing after visiting sites believed to contain the remains of their relatives who died around the end of World War II in what is now North Korea.

Japanese repatriates to visit N. Korea burial sites

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki (L front) and other members of a group of former Japanese residents in Korea arrive at Pyongyang's international airport on Aug. 28, 2012, to visit burial sites that North Korea says contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II. The members of Seishinkai plan to visit several burial sites in Pyongyang and other parts of the country during a 10-day trip to North Korea.

Japan remains retrieval group en route to N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Members of a Japan-based group of former Japanese residents in Korea arrive at Beijing's international airport on Aug. 27, 2012, en route to North Korea to visit the burial sites of their relatives who died in what is now North Korea. The members of the group, Seishinkai, are scheduled to arrive in Pyongyang the following day.

Japanese chef returns from N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Kenji Fujimoto, Japanese sushi chef to the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, arrives at Beijing airport from Pyongyang on Aug. 4, 2012, en route back to Japan, after wrapping up a two-week trip to North Korea. Fujimoto said current leader Kim Jong Un gave him a warm welcome in their first reunion in 11 years and that he also met with the young leader's wife Ri Sol Ju, whom he described as "pretty and charming."

N. Korean military chief relieved of all posts

BEIJING, China - Photo shows North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un (R) talking to Ri Yong Ho, chief of the Korean People's Army General Staff, as they view a military parade in Pyongyang in February 2012, during a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of Kim Jong Il, the country's late leader and father of Kim Jong Un. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported on July 16, 2012, that Ri, known as one of the closest aides of Kim Jong Un, has been removed from all his posts because of illness.

N. Korea's No. 2 leader

PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea's second-ranking leader Kim Yong Nam (L front) shakes hands with a person who sees him off at Pyongyang's international airport on May 10, 2012. Kim, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, left Pyongyang to visit Singapore and Indonesia, North Korean official media reported.

Japanese wife of Korean in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Mitsuko Minakawa, a Japanese woman who moved to North Korea in 1960 with her Korean husband, is interviewed by Kyodo News at a hotel in Pyongyang on April 19, 2012. Minakawa, 73, expressed hope for early normalization of bilateral relations, saying, ''We'd like to meet our kin in Japan and visit graves of our parents and relatives whenever we like,'' in summing up the view of Japanese wives living in North Korea.