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UGANDA-ENTEBBE-FORMER LRA FIGHERS-COMING HOME

(230723) -- ENTEBBE, July 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja (C, front) greets the group leader Maj. Gen. Ali Acaye while receiving the homecoming former fighters of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group and their families at the Entebbe military airbase, Uganda, July 22, 2023. Uganda on Saturday received 14 former fighters of the notorious LRA rebel group repatriated from the Central African Republic. The first batch of former rebels led by Maj. Gen. Ali Acaye, alias "Doctor", together with 14 of their wives and 33 children who have been holed up in the jungles of CAR, arrived at Entebbe International Airport, 40 kilometers south of Kampala, the capital city, by a chartered flight. (Photo by Samuel Okiror/Xinhua)

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UGANDA-ENTEBBE-FORMER LRA FIGHERS-COMING HOME

(230723) -- ENTEBBE, July 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A local band plays Ugandan traditional music to welcome the homecoming former fighters of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group and their families at the Entebbe military airbase, Uganda, July 22, 2023. Uganda on Saturday received 14 former fighters of the notorious LRA rebel group repatriated from the Central African Republic. The first batch of former rebels led by Maj. Gen. Ali Acaye, alias "Doctor", together with 14 of their wives and 33 children who have been holed up in the jungles of CAR, arrived at Entebbe International Airport, 40 kilometers south of Kampala, the capital city, by a chartered flight. (Photo by Samuel Okiror/Xinhua)

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Oscar-winner Yeoh's Malaysia homecoming

Malaysian-born actress Michelle Yeoh attends a homecoming press conference in Kuala Lumpur in April 2023, a month after becoming the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for best actress.

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Oscar-winner Yeoh's Malaysia homecoming

Malaysian-born actress Michelle Yeoh (front) greets fans during a homecoming event in Kuala Lumpur in April 2023, a month after becoming the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for best actress.

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Oscar-winner Yeoh's Malaysia homecoming

Malaysian-born actress Michelle Yeoh shows her Oscar statuette during a homecoming press conference in Kuala Lumpur in April 2023, a month after becoming the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for best actress.

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Oscar-winner Yeoh's Malaysia homecoming

Malaysian-born actress Michelle Yeoh (C) is surrounded by fans during a homecoming event in Kuala Lumpur in April 2023, a month after becoming the first Asian woman to win the Academy Award for best actress.

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Japanese ground troops return home from Samawah, voice fear

SAPPORO, Japan - A member of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force unit poses with his family members on returning from Iraq to his garrison in Sapporo on Aug. 22. It is the first homecoming for members of the 470-member Ground Self-Defense Force unit dispatched to Samawah in May for a three-month tour of duty to provide humanitarian and reconstruction assistance.

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Asashoryu goes home for 1st time since yokozuna promotion

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Asashoryu (L), the first Mongolian to attain sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, is given an honorary award by Mongolian Prime Minister Nambaryn Enkhbayar in Ulan Bator on Feb. 11. The 22-year-old grand champion, whose real name is Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, arrived in the Mongolian capital on Feb. 10 for a five-day homecoming.

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Japanese who fled N. Korea from China arrives in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - A Japanese woman (indicated by arrow, behind man), who was in Chinese custody for two weeks following an escape from North Korea in November, tries to hide her face as she arrives at Kansai International Airport near Osaka for her first homecoming in 44 years. She is surrounded by Foreign Ministry officials.

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Niigata Gov. Hirayama visits Hasuike house in Kashiwazaki

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Niigata Gov. Ikuo Hirayama (L) presents a photo album to Kaoru Hasuike (C) and his wife Yukiko, two of five Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea in 1978 now on a homecoming visit, at their house in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Nov. 11. The Niigata prefectural government compiled the album featuring photos of the Hasuikes since Sept. 15 when they returned to Japan for the first time in 26 years. (Pool photo)

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Koizumi promises efforts for abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama (L), president of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, poses questions to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (4th from R) during a debate among party leaders at the Diet on Oct. 30. Koizumi said his government is trying its best to reunite five Japanese abductees now in Japan on their first homecoming in 24 years with their families in Pyongyang.

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Chimuras worried about kids in N. Korea

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi and Fukie Chimura (C), on their first homecoming visit since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, see Tsuyoshi Takagi, a House of Representatives member, off at their father's home in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 30. Fukie told the lawmaker her children she left behind in North Korea may worry if their stay in Japan is extended to long beyond an agreed two-week period. (Pool photo)

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Chimuras enjoy fishing off Wakasa Bay

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (R) and his wife Fukie hold up fish at a port in the city of Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 25 after enjoying fishing on a boat in Wakasa Bay on the Sea of Japan coast. The couple are on their first homecoming visit since being abducted to North Korea in 1978. (Pool photo)

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Chimura says return to Japan was unthinkable

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (L) and his wife Fukie, who are on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, meet the press at the Obama city government in Fukui Prefecture on Oct. 23. Chimura said he did not think he could come back to Japan while he was in Pyongyang.

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Niigata couple tour Kashiwazaki

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Yukiko Okuda (L) and her husband Kaoru Hasuike stop at a belvedere on a cape facing the Sea of Japan in the city of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 21 while touring the city by van. The couple are in the city on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978.

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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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(3)Abductees enjoy their homecoming

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (R) receives flowers from one of his former classmates at a meeting of his primary school alumni association in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 20. Classmates arranged the meeting to celebrate Chimura's first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978. (Pool photo)

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(6)Abductees enjoy their homecoming

OBAMA, Japan - Fukie Hamamoto, who visited her primary school in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 20, sits at the desk she once used. The school is not in use because of a drop in the number of children, but most facilities are kept intact. It was Hamamoto's first visit to the school since being abducted to North Korea in 1978. (Pool photo)

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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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(6)Abductees spend their time in hometown

HAMO, Japan - Clad in kimono, Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, attends a ''Shichi-go-san'' ceremony for her nephew Daisuke at a Shinto shrine in Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 19. (Pool photo)

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(4)Abductees enjoy their homecoming

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (L) hugs his friend in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 20 in their first reunion since Chimura was abducted to North Korea in 1978. They attended the same senior high school in their hometown. (Pool photo)

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(5)Abductees spend their time in hometown

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike, one of five Japanese on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, is tossed by his friends at the end of a baseball game they played together at their alma mater in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 19.

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Soga observes crested ibises on Sadogashima Island

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, 43, one of the five Japanese nationals on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, visits the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center with her nephew on Oct. 20. The conservation center is on Sadogashima Island in Niigata Prefecture.

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(4)Abductees spend their time in hometown

HAMO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (C), one of five Japanese on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, holds the hand of her nephew Daisuke at a Shinto shrine in Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 19. She is accompanied by her younger sister Tomiko (R).

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Abductees receive passports in hometown

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Yukiko Okudo (L) and her husband Kaoru Hasuike receive Japanese passports on Oct. 19 at Hasuike's house in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture. The two are among five Japanese on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978. (Pool photo)

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(7) Abductees spend time in hometown

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (2nd from L) and his wife Fukie Hamamoto visit with the head of a local support group for Japanese abductees in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 19. They are among five Japanese on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978. (Pool photo)

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Soga attends high school reunion

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (C), who was abducted to North Korea in 1978, chats with friends Oct. 18 at a high school class reunion on Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, during her first homecoming since the abduction.

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Soga receives diploma in Sado

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (R), one of the five Japanese nationals on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, receives a graduation diploma from principal Kunihiro Fujiki of the prefectural Sado High School on Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 18 at a makeshift ''graduation ceremony'' at a Niigata hotel. Soga was a 19-year-old student at the school at the time of her abduction.

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(1) Japan begins issuing passports to 5 abductees

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura, who returned to his home in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 17 for the first time since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, looks at his passport at his home on Oct. 18. Japanese authorities began issuing passports to five Japanese who were abducted to North Korea in 1978 and are currently in Japan on a homecoming visit. (Pool photo)

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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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Terakoshi leaves Japan, bids farewell to mother

NARITA, Japan - Takeshi Terakoshi (L), a Japanese who went missing while fishing in the Sea of Japan in the early 1960s and has since lived in North Korea, shakes hands with his 71-year-old mother, Tomoe, before leaving Narita airport on the afternoon of Oct. 12 for North Korea after his first homecoming visit to Japan in 39 years. Terakoshi, 53, who disappeared from the Sea of Japan 39 years ago as a boy and is now a resident of Pyongyang, bid farewell in Japanese, saying, ''Mother, take care.'' (Kyodo News)

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Terakoshi visits family grave in Japan

HAKUI, Japan - Takeshi Terakoshi (R), on a homecoming visit from North Korea for the first time since he disappeared 39 years ago, and his mother Tomoe visit their family grave in Ishikawa Prefecture on Oct. 7.

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Japanese man in N. Korea arrives in Beijing on way home

BEIJING, China - Takeshi Terakoshi, a Japanese man living in North Korea who went missing while fishing in the Sea of Japan in the early 1960s, is surrounded by reporters at Beijing Capital International Airport on Oct. 1 after arriving there from Pyongyang on his way home to Japan, his first homecoming in 39 years.

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Pro-Pyongyang Koreans in Japan leave for homecoming in S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - A group of 50 Korean residents in Japan (L side) are seen off at Narita airport east of Tokyo on Sept. 22 before leaving on a homecoming trip to South Korea, the first delegation organized by the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan. The participants, who are in their 70s, 80s and 90s, will meet family and visit relatives' graves, during the six-day trip.

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INDONESIA-SOUTH TANGERANG-COVID-19-VACCINATION

(220329) -- SOUTH TANGERANG, March 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People wait to receive COVID-19 vaccines in South Tangerang, in Banten Province, Indonesia, March 29, 2022. The government will allow people who have received the first, second, and booster COVID-19 vaccines to make Eid al-Fitr homecoming trips this year. (Photo by Agung Kuncahya B./Xinhua)

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INDONESIA-SOUTH TANGERANG-COVID-19-VACCINATION

(220329) -- SOUTH TANGERANG, March 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People wait to receive COVID-19 vaccines in South Tangerang, in Banten Province, Indonesia, March 29, 2022. The government will allow people who have received the first, second, and booster COVID-19 vaccines to make Eid al-Fitr homecoming trips this year. (Photo by Agung Kuncahya B./Xinhua)

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INDONESIA-SOUTH TANGERANG-COVID-19-VACCINATION

(220329) -- SOUTH TANGERANG, March 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A health worker injects a woman with a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine in South Tangerang, in Banten Province, Indonesia, March 29, 2022. The government will allow people who have received the first, second, and booster COVID-19 vaccines to make Eid al-Fitr homecoming trips this year. (Photo by Agung Kuncahya B./Xinhua)

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INDONESIA-SOUTH TANGERANG-COVID-19-VACCINATION

(220329) -- SOUTH TANGERANG, March 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A health worker injects a man with a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine in South Tangerang, in Banten Province, Indonesia, March 29, 2022. The government will allow people who have received the first, second, and booster COVID-19 vaccines to make Eid al-Fitr homecoming trips this year. (Photo by Agung Kuncahya B./Xinhua)

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INDONESIA-SOUTH TANGERANG-COVID-19-VACCINATION

(220329) -- SOUTH TANGERANG, March 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People wait to receive COVID-19 vaccines in South Tangerang, in Banten Province, Indonesia, March 29, 2022. The government will allow people who have received the first, second, and booster COVID-19 vaccines to make Eid al-Fitr homecoming trips this year. (Photo by Agung Kuncahya B./Xinhua)

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Japanese ground troops return home from Samawah, voice fear

SAPPORO, Japan - A member of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force unit poses with his family members on returning from Iraq to his garrison in Sapporo on Aug. 22. It is the first homecoming for members of the 470-member Ground Self-Defense Force unit dispatched to Samawah in May for a three-month tour of duty to provide humanitarian and reconstruction assistance. (Kyodo)

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Chimuras enjoy fishing off Wakasa Bay

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (R) and his wife Fukie hold up fish at a port in the city of Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 25 after enjoying fishing on a boat in Wakasa Bay on the Sea of Japan coast. The couple are on their first homecoming visit since being abducted to North Korea in 1978. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Chimura says return to Japan was unthinkable

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (L) and his wife Fukie, who are on their first homecoming since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, meet the press at the Obama city government in Fukui Prefecture on Oct. 23. Chimura said he did not think he could come back to Japan while he was in Pyongyang. (Kyodo)

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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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Soga attends high school reunion

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (C), who was abducted to North Korea in 1978, chats with friends Oct. 18 at a high school class reunion on Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture, during her first homecoming since the abduction. (Kyodo)

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Koizumi promises efforts for abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama (L), president of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, poses questions to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (4th from R) during a debate among party leaders at the Diet on Oct. 30. Koizumi said his government is trying its best to reunite five Japanese abductees now in Japan on their first homecoming in 24 years with their families in Pyongyang. (Kyodo)

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Chimuras worried about kids in N. Korea

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi and Fukie Chimura (C), on their first homecoming visit since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, see Tsuyoshi Takagi, a House of Representatives member, off at their father's home in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 30. Fukie told the lawmaker her children she left behind in North Korea may worry if their stay in Japan is extended to long beyond an agreed two-week period. (Pool photo) (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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Pro-Pyongyang Koreans in Japan leave for homecoming in S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - A group of 50 Korean residents in Japan (L side) are seen off at Narita airport east of Tokyo on Sept. 22 before leaving on a homecoming trip to South Korea, the first delegation organized by the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan. The participants, who are in their 70s, 80s and 90s, will meet family and visit relatives' graves, during the six-day trip.

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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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Japanese man in N. Korea arrives in Beijing on way home

BEIJING, China - Takeshi Terakoshi, a Japanese man living in North Korea who went missing while fishing in the Sea of Japan in the early 1960s, is surrounded by reporters at Beijing Capital International Airport on Oct. 1 after arriving there from Pyongyang on his way home to Japan, his first homecoming in 39 years. (Kyodo)