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Abductee thanks friend for advice upon 2002 return from N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows five abduction victims -- Yasushi Chimura (R front), his wife Fukie (C front), Kaoru Hasuike and his wife Yukiko (center), and Hitomi Soga (upper left) -- returning to Japan from North Korea at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 15, 2002.

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Hasuike starts full-time teaching

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike, one of the five repatriated victims of abduction by North Korea, receives a letter of appointment as a full-time contract employee at Niigata Sangyo University on April 1. Hasuike, 47, who had been teaching Korean part time at the university, takes on additional tasks such as offering guidance to foreign students.

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(2)Hasuike begins working at Kashiwazaki city gov't

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike (standing), one of the five abduction victims returned from North Korea, addresses Kashiwazaki city government staff in Niigata Prefecture Feb. 17, the first day of his work at the city office in his hometown. (Pool photo)

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(1)Hasuike begins working at Kashiwazaki city gov't

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike (front), one of the five abduction victims returned from North Korea, receives instructions about his work at the city government of his hometown of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture on Feb. 17, the first day of his work at the city office. Hasuike will work about three times a week as a temporary worker ahead of his full-time employment in April. (Pool photo)

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5 abduction victims do not plan to return to N. Korea

NIIGATA, Japan - Five Japanese back in their homeland after being abducted by North Korea in 1978 -- Yukiko Hasuike (L), her husband Kaoru Hasuike (2nd from L), Hitomi Soga (C), Yasushi Chimura (2nd from R) and his wife Fukie Chimura -- hold a joint press conference at the Niigata prefectural government office on Dec. 19. They said they have no intention of returning to the North, where their children and the husband of one of them remain. (Pool photo)

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5 abductees meet relatives of abduction victims

NIIGATA, Japan - The five Japanese (seated background)) now back home after being abducted to North Korea in 1978 meet relatives of other Japanese abduction victims at a Niigata hotel Dec. 19. (From R to L, background) are Kaoru Hasuike, Yasushi Chimura, Hitomi Soga, Fukie Chimura and Yukiko Hasuike. The returnees removed their North Korean badges in the meeting. (Pool photo)

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Hasuike starts full-time teaching

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike, one of the five repatriated victims of abduction by North Korea, receives a letter of appointment as a full-time contract employee at Niigata Sangyo University on April 1. Hasuike, 47, who had been teaching Korean part time at the university, takes on additional tasks such as offering guidance to foreign students. (Kyodo)

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5 abductees meet relatives of abduction victims

NIIGATA, Japan - The five Japanese (seated background)) now back home after being abducted to North Korea in 1978 meet relatives of other Japanese abduction victims at a Niigata hotel Dec. 19. (From R to L, background) are Kaoru Hasuike, Yasushi Chimura, Hitomi Soga, Fukie Chimura and Yukiko Hasuike. The returnees removed their North Korean badges in the meeting. (Pool photo)(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

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(2)Hasuike begins working at Kashiwazaki city gov't

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike (standing), one of the five abduction victims returned from North Korea, addresses Kashiwazaki city government staff in Niigata Prefecture Feb. 17, the first day of his work at the city office in his hometown. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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(1)Hasuike begins working at Kashiwazaki city gov't

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike (front), one of the five abduction victims returned from North Korea, receives instructions about his work at the city government of his hometown of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture on Feb. 17, the first day of his work at the city office. Hasuike will work about three times a week as a temporary worker ahead of his full-time employment in April. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Abductee Soga asks for gov't help

TOKYO, Nov. 27 Kyodo - Hitomi Soga (C), one of five Japanese abducted to North Korea and now back in Japan, is about to leave the prime minister's office Nov. 27 after her meeting with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (R) and Kyoko Nakayama, an adviser at the Cabinet Secretariat to the victims of the kidnapping cases. Soga asked for government help in settling the abduction issue. (Kyodo)