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Event on North Korean abduction issue

Hitomi Soga, a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea in 1978 before being repatriated in 2002, speaks to reporters on Nov. 16, 2024, after attending an event in the central Japan city of Niigata, to mark the 47th anniversary of the abduction of Megumi Yokota. Yokota was abducted by North Korea at age 13 on Nov. 15, 1977, and has become a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s.

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Scandal-tainted Asashoryu calls it quits

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrestler Asashoryu is all smiles after beating Wakanosato on the 13th day of the 15-day Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka on Nov. 22, 2002, becoming the first Mongolian to win the Emperor's Cup. Yokozuna (grand champion) Asashoryu, whose real name is Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, announced his retirement on Feb. 4, 2010, in the wake of a recent scandal in which he was alleged to have seriously injured a man in a drunken rampage.

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Softbank stays in red on start-up cost for broadband service

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 15. The company incurred a group net loss of 55.80 billion yen in the April-September first half of fiscal 2002, up slightly from a loss of 54.32 billion yen a year earlier. The major Internet investor said it stayed in the red for the second consecutive first-half period largely because it continued up-front spending for its broadband service.

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Body identified as missing teacher

NAGOYA, Japan - Policemen cordon off a section of the forests in Mori, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 15, 2002 after they found a body identified later as that of Masahiro Ishida, a 37-year-old information technology teacher, who had been missing sine getting embroiled in an extortion case in July.

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Body identified as missing teacher

NAGOYA, Japan - Policemen cordon off a section of the forests in Mori, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 15, 2002 after they found a body identified later as that of Masahiro Ishida, a 37-year-old information technology teacher, who had been missing sine getting embroiled in an extortion case in July.

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Softbank stays in red on start-up cost for broadband service

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 15. The company incurred a group net loss of 55.80 billion yen in the April-September first half of fiscal 2002, up slightly from a loss of 54.32 billion yen a year earlier. The major Internet investor said it stayed in the red for the second consecutive first-half period largely because it continued up-front spending for its broadband service. (Kyodo)

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(5) South Koreans protest against N. Korea's nuclear program

SEOUL, South Korea - South Koreans protest against North Korea's nuclear development program in protest march in Seoul. Picture taken on Nov. 15, 2002. (Kyodo)

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(2) Journalist Naoki Inose

TOKYO, Japan - Journalist Naoki Inose, member of a governmental panel on privatization of four road-related public corporations, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2002. (Kyodo)

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Scandal-tainted Asashoryu calls it quits

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian sumo wrestler Asashoryu is all smiles after beating Wakanosato on the 13th day of the 15-day Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka on Nov. 22, 2002, becoming the first Mongolian to win the Emperor's Cup. Yokozuna (grand champion) Asashoryu, whose real name is Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, announced his retirement on Feb. 4, 2010, in the wake of a recent scandal in which he was alleged to have seriously injured a man in a drunken rampage. (Kyodo)

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40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

Hitomi Soga, one of the five Japanese abductees repatriated from North Korea in 2002, speaks to an audience in Niigata on Nov. 15, 2017, the day fellow abductee Megumi Yokota was taken by North Korean agents 40 years ago at age 13. Soga shared memories of a brief period when she lived with Yokota in North Korea and called for continued efforts to realize the return of Yokota and other abduction victims to Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo