Head of abductee families group returns home from Washington

Head of abductee families group returns home from Washington

Takuya Yokota (C), 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 May 4, 2025, following a trip 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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