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Families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea

Family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, including Sakie Yokota (C), hold a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025, after meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi earlier in the day.

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Families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea

Family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, including Sakie Yokota (C), hold a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025, after meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi earlier in the day.

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Families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea

Family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, including Sakie Yokota (4th from R, back), hold a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025, after meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi earlier in the day.

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Families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea

Family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, including Sakie Yokota (2nd from R), hold a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025, after meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi earlier in the day.

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Abductees' families meet with PM

Takuya Yokota, head of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades earlier, speaks to journalists after he and other group members met with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 22, 2025. Yokota's sister, Megumi, was abducted in 1977 at age 13.

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Abductees' families meet with PM

Members of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades earlier meet with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from R) at the premier's office in Tokyo on May 22, 2025.

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Relatives of abductees meet with new U.S. ambassador

Takuya Yokota (2nd from R), head of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades earlier, and his mother Sakie (C) hold a press conference in Tokyo on May 15, 2025, after they and other group members met with new U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass. Takuya Yokota's sister Megumi was abducted in 1977 at age 13.

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Relatives of abductees meet with new U.S. ambassador

Takuya Yokota (R), head of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades earlier, and his mother Sakie hold a press conference in Tokyo on May 15, 2025, after they and other group members met with new U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass. Takuya Yokota's sister Megumi was abducted in 1977 at age 13.

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Head of abductee families group returns home from Washington

TOKYO, Japan, May 4 Kyodo - Takuya Yokota, 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. (Kyodo)

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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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Head of abductee families group returns home from Washington

Takuya Yokota (L), 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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Head of abductee families group departs for Washington

Takuya Yokota, 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 April 29, 2025, before flying to Washington for meetings with U.S. government officials and lawmakers.

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Head of abductee families group departs for Washington

Takuya Yokota (3rd from L), 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 April 29, 2025, before flying 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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Rebels Liberate Sednaya Prison From Assad's Sadistic Grip - Syria

A man looks at Sednaya Prison from the main entrance of the complex, as smoke rises from fires set earlier that day around the prison. More than 30,000 people were killed over decades in the ‘human slaughterhouse’ outside Damascus where the regime sought to suppress dissent by execution. Sednaya, the infamous “human slaughterhouse” outside Damascus, was where thousands of regime opponents had been locked up, tortured and killed from the earliest days of the 2011 uprising to the long brutal years of civil war. Rebels filmed as they entered Sednaya, nestled incongruously in the peaceful hills north of Damascus, alongside a monastery and the country villas of Syrian and Arab elites. Syria, December 10, 2024. Photo by Sandro BasiliABACAPRESS.COM

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The 33rd anniversary of the restoration of Estonia's independence

20.08.2024. Tallinn. Restoration of Independence Day is marked on August 20 each year to celebrate the date in 1991 when Estonia regained the freedom it had lost to the Soviet Union more than five decades earlier. Thirty-three years ago, on August 20 1991, volunteers rushed to protect Tallinn's TV tower after Soviet forces were sent to the country to cripple the country's communication systems. Now a family day was held there. Photo Eero Vabamägi, Postimees

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The 33rd anniversary of the restoration of Estonia's independence

20.08.2024. Tallinn. Restoration of Independence Day is marked on August 20 each year to celebrate the date in 1991 when Estonia regained the freedom it had lost to the Soviet Union more than five decades earlier. Thirty-three years ago, on August 20 1991, volunteers rushed to protect Tallinn's TV tower after Soviet forces were sent to the country to cripple the country's communication systems. Now a family day was held there. Photo Eero Vabamägi, Postimees

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The 33rd anniversary of the restoration of Estonia's independence

20.08.2024. Tallinn. Restoration of Independence Day is marked on August 20 each year to celebrate the date in 1991 when Estonia regained the freedom it had lost to the Soviet Union more than five decades earlier. Thirty-three years ago, on August 20 1991, volunteers rushed to protect Tallinn's TV tower after Soviet forces were sent to the country to cripple the country's communication systems. Now a family day was held there. Photo Eero Vabamägi, Postimees

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The 33rd anniversary of the restoration of Estonia's independence

20.08.2024. Tallinn. Restoration of Independence Day is marked on August 20 each year to celebrate the date in 1991 when Estonia regained the freedom it had lost to the Soviet Union more than five decades earlier. Thirty-three years ago, on August 20 1991, volunteers rushed to protect Tallinn's TV tower after Soviet forces were sent to the country to cripple the country's communication systems. Now a family day was held there. Photo Eero Vabamägi, Postimees

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Japan wants N. Korea to present 1st report on abductees by year-end

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga attends a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2014, saying that Japan hopes North Korea will present by year-end its report on a new round of investigations into Japanese nationals it abducted decades ago, following Pyongyang's failure to meet an earlier expected timeframe.

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PM Abe receives reports from Ihara about talks with N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30, 2014, after being briefed by Junichi Ihara, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry. Ihara returned to Tokyo earlier in the day from North Korea, where he met for two days with North Korean officials about Pyongyang's investigation into the fate of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago.

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PM Abe receives reports from Ihara about talks with N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30, 2014, after being briefed by Junichi Ihara, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry. Ihara returned to Tokyo earlier in the day from North Korea, where he met for two days with North Korean officials about Pyongyang's investigation into the fate of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago.

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Good-bye, jumbo jet

NARITA, Japan - Japan Airlines cabin attendants wearing both current and earlier uniforms pose with a Boeing 747 that returned from Honolulu to Narita airport near Tokyo on March 1, 2011 on its final international flight, bringing to an end more than four decades of service by the 'jumbo jets' for the carrier.

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S. Korea lifts ban on Japanese products

A young Korean couple checks Japanese electronic appliances at a shop in downtown Seoul on June 30. South Korea lifted a decades-old ban on imports of Japanese products earlier in the day.

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Afghan authorities reactivate silo in northern Mazar-I-Sharif city

STORY: Afghan authorities reactivate silo in northern Mazar-I-Sharif city DATELINE: Nov. 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of bread baking at the reactivated silo in Mazar-i-Sharif city 2. SOUNDBITE (Dari): MOHAMMAD JAWED SEDIDI, Director of the silo 3. various of people at the reactivated silo in Mazar-i-Sharif city STORYLINE: Afghan authorities reactivated the only silo three decades after it was rendered idle in Mazar-i-Sharif city, capital of northern Balkh province, on Monday. SOUNDBITE (Dari): MOHAMMAD JAWED SEDIDI, Director of the silo "At the moment one oven of the silo has begun operation to bake bread and efforts are underway to activate 18 other ovens to increase our products." Like other infrastructures, the erstwhile Soviet Union-made silo in Mazar-i-Sharif has been damaged due to decades of war in the country. This is the second silo that has been reactivated by the authorities in Afghanistan over several months. Earlier,

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Supply of labor falls short in U.S. after COVID-19 pandemic

STORY: Supply of labor falls short in U.S. after COVID-19 pandemic DATELINE: Sept. 16, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of street views STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): XIA LIN, Xinhua correspondent "While the United States emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, employers have been desperate to hire. Demand for goods and services has rebounded, but the supply of labor has fallen short, holding back the economy. 'More than two years after the COVID-19 recession officially ended, some sectors haven't found the workers they need to operate at capacity,' reported The New York Times earlier in September. In simple numbers, some of that gap is due to the pandemic's death toll: more than a million people, about 260,000 of them short of retirement age. 'For decades, a large generation aging into retirement has been the strongest factor dragging down overall labor force participation,' said the newspaper. The pand

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Turkish currency hits record low against U.S. dollar amid high inflation

STORY: Turkish currency hits record low against U.S. dollar amid high inflation DATELINE: May 10, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:43 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Turkey CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1 various of money exchange offices in Turkey 2 various of street views 3 various of market STORYLINE: The Turkish currency broke through a key threshold Monday against the U.S. dollar amid the soaring inflation rate. At 2:10 p.m. (1110 GMT), one dollar was traded at 15.03 Turkish liras, exceeding the resistance level of 15.00. The currency has lost almost 60 percent of value against the greenback since 2021. The renewed depreciation of the Turkish currency came after the country's inflation rose at a monthly rate of 7.25 percent in April and 69.97 percent from a year earlier, the highest in the last two decades. According to the Turkish statistical institute, the depreciation was driven mainly by growing transportation and food prices. The Turkish economy has long been suffering from a series of turmoil, including the co

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Good-bye, jumbo jet

NARITA, Japan - Japan Airlines cabin attendants wearing both current and earlier uniforms pose with a Boeing 747 that returned from Honolulu to Narita airport near Tokyo on March 1, 2011 on its final international flight, bringing to an end more than four decades of service by the 'jumbo jets' for the carrier. (Kyodo)

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Japan wants N. Korea to present 1st report on abductees by year-end

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga attends a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2014, saying that Japan hopes North Korea will present by year-end its report on a new round of investigations into Japanese nationals it abducted decades ago, following Pyongyang's failure to meet an earlier expected timeframe. (Kyodo)

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PM Abe receives reports from Ihara about talks with N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30, 2014, after being briefed by Junichi Ihara, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry. Ihara returned to Tokyo earlier in the day from North Korea, where he met for two days with North Korean officials about Pyongyang's investigation into the fate of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago. (Kyodo)

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PM Abe receives reports from Ihara about talks with N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 30, 2014, after being briefed by Junichi Ihara, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry. Ihara returned to Tokyo earlier in the day from North Korea, where he met for two days with North Korean officials about Pyongyang's investigation into the fate of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago. (Kyodo)

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Kyoto Animation studio marks 1st anniversary of deadly arson attack

Photo taken on July 18, 2020, shows the site where the Kyoto Animation Co. studio that was subjected to a deadly arson attack used to stand. Bereaved family members and company officials mourned the 36 victims of the attack in western Japan earlier in the day, marking the first anniversary of the country's worst crime in decades.

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Kyoto Animation studio marks 1st anniversary of deadly arson attack

Photo taken on July 18, 2020, shows the site where the Kyoto Animation Co. studio that was subjected to a deadly arson attack used to stand. Bereaved family members and company officials mourned the 36 victims of the attack in western Japan earlier in the day, marking the first anniversary of the country's worst crime in decades.

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Kyoto Animation studio marks 1st anniversary of deadly arson attack

A man prays on July 18, 2020, in front of the site where the Kyoto Animation Co. studio that was subjected to a deadly arson attack used to stand. Bereaved family members and company officials mourned the 36 victims of the attack in western Japan earlier in the day, marking the first anniversary of the country's worst crime in decades.

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S. Korea lifts ban on Japanese products

A young Korean couple checks Japanese electronic appliances at a shop in downtown Seoul on June 30. South Korea lifted a decades-old ban on imports of Japanese products earlier in the day.

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S. Korea lifts ban on Japanese products

A young Korean couple checks Japanese electronic appliances at a shop in downtown Seoul on June 30. South Korea lifted a decades-old ban on imports of Japanese products earlier in the day.