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(7)Abductees enjoy their homecoming

SADOGASHIMA ISLAND, Japan - Hitomi Soga (C), one of five Japanese on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, shakes hands with a tourist during a visit to the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center in the village of Niibo, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 20.

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(8)Abductees enjoy their homecoming

SADOGASHIMA ISLAND, Japan - Hitomi Soga, on her first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, smiles after being presented with a picture of crested ibises during a visit to the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center in the village of Niibo, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 20. (Pool photo)

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(7)Abductees enjoy their homecoming

SADOGASHIMA ISLAND, Japan - Hitomi Soga (C), one of five Japanese on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, shakes hands with a tourist during a visit to the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center in the village of Niibo, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 20. (Kyodo)

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(8)Abductees enjoy their homecoming

SADOGASHIMA ISLAND, Japan - Hitomi Soga, on her first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, smiles after being presented with a picture of crested ibises during a visit to the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center in the village of Niibo, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 20. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Last of Japan's original crested ibises dies

NIIBO, Japan - Photo taken on Sept. 17, 2003 shows Kin, the last crested ibis to have been born in the wild in Japan, that died from old age at a breeding center in the village of Niibo, Niigata Prefecture on Oct. 10. The female ibis was found dead at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan, the Environment Ministry said. (Kyodo)

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Ibises enter mating season as feathers change color

NIIBO, Japan - The two ibises which produced Japan's first artificially bred ibis ''Yu Yu'' last May are showing signs of mating again, the Sado Crested Ibis Conservation Center in Niibo, on Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, said on Feb. 15. The photo, taken Feb. 11 and provided by the center, shows You You (L), the male, and Yang Yang, the female, presented to Japan by China. The color around their necks has changed to that for the mating season, the center said.