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(2)Abe, Nakayama meet Hitomi Soga

MANO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (L) sit down with Hitomi Soga (2nd from R), abducted to North Korea in 1978 and now visiting Japan, her father Shigeru (3rd from R) and younger sister Tomiko Kaneko (R) at her family home in Mano on Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 6. (Pool photo)

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(4)Abductees visit relatives, graves

MANO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (L), along with her sister Tomiko Kaneko (C), prays at her family's grave in the town of Mano in Niigata Prefecture's island of Sadogashima on Oct. 18. Soga returned her hometown on Oct. 17 for the first time since being abducted to North Korea. (Pool photo)

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(3)Abductees glad to be in homeland

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (R) prepares to take her seat beside her sister Tomiko Kaneko at a joint news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 15.

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(4)Abductees, kin embrace after 24 years

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (R) is accompanied by her sister Tomiko Kaneko on arrival at Haneda airport for temporary homecoming from North Korea on Oct. 15.

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(1)5 abducted to N. Korea reunited with families

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (R), accompanied by her sister Tomiko Kaneko (C), holds a bouquet of flowers at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 15 after arriving for a temporary homecoming from Pyongyang. Soga and four other Japanese abducted by North Korea were reunited with their families for the first time since going missing from Japan in 1978.

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(4)Abductees visit relatives, graves

MANO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (L), along with her sister Tomiko Kaneko (C), prays at her family's grave in the town of Mano in Niigata Prefecture's island of Sadogashima on Oct. 18. Soga returned her hometown on Oct. 17 for the first time since being abducted to North Korea. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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(4)Abductees, kin embrace after 24 years

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (R) is accompanied by her sister Tomiko Kaneko on arrival at Haneda airport for temporary homecoming from North Korea on Oct. 15. (Kyodo)

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(1)5 abducted to N. Korea reunited with families

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (R), accompanied by her sister Tomiko Kaneko (C), holds a bouquet of flowers at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 15 after arriving for a temporary homecoming from Pyongyang. Soga and four other Japanese abducted by North Korea were reunited with their families for the first time since going missing from Japan in 1978. (Kyodo)

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(2)Abe, Nakayama meet Hitomi Soga

MANO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (L) sit down with Hitomi Soga (2nd from R), abducted to North Korea in 1978 and now visiting Japan, her father Shigeru (3rd from R) and younger sister Tomiko Kaneko (R) at her family home in Mano on Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 6. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)