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(2) Group adds two more to list of would-be abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Photos released March 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN) show Koichi Kawashima (L), who went missing from Yokohama in 1982 at age 23, and Masateru Maegami (R), who disappeared from Hokkaido in 1977 at age 20 -- who have been added to the COMJAN list of those it believes highly likely to have been abducted by North Korea.

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(1)Group adds two more to list of would-be abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiro Araki, who heads the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), speaks to reporters in Tokyo on March 10. The group added two people -- Koichi Kawashima, who went missing from Yokohama in 1982 at age 23, and Masateru Maegami, who disappeared from Hokkaido in 1977 at age 20 -- to its list of those it believes highly likely to have been abducted by North Korea.

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Fossils of new dinosaur species found in Thailand

Masateru Shibata, a researcher at Fukui Prefectural University's Dinosaurs Research Institute, is pictured with fossils of a dinosaur discovered in Thailand, in Eiheiji, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan on Jan. 15, 2016. The fossils have been found to be those of an unknown species of iguanodon. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asahi Kasei says 41 projects handled by employee in piling scandal

Masateru Sakai (R), a senior executive at Asahi Kasei Construction Materials Co., a subsidiary of Asahi Kasei Corp., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2015 after Asahi Kasei Corp. reported to the land ministry that it will investigate a total of 3,040 construction projects, placing particular priority on 41 projects handled by an employee at the subsidiary who falsified data for piling work at a condominium building that is now tilting. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(1)Group adds two more to list of would-be abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiro Araki, who heads the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), speaks to reporters in Tokyo on March 10. The group added two people -- Koichi Kawashima, who went missing from Yokohama in 1982 at age 23, and Masateru Maegami, who disappeared from Hokkaido in 1977 at age 20 -- to its list of those it believes highly likely to have been abducted by North Korea. (Kyodo)

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(2) Group adds two more to list of would-be abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Photos released March 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN) show Koichi Kawashima (L), who went missing from Yokohama in 1982 at age 23, and Masateru Maegami (R), who disappeared from Hokkaido in 1977 at age 20 -- who have been added to the COMJAN list of those it believes highly likely to have been abducted by North Korea. (Kyodo)