Head of abductee families group departs for Washington

Head of abductee families group departs for Washington

Takuya Yokota (3rd from L), head of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades earlier, meets the press at Tokyo's Haneda airport on April 29, 2025, before flying to Washington for meetings with U.S. government officials and lawmakers. Yokota's sister Megumi was abducted in 1977 at age 13.

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