Hasuike starts full-time teaching

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.

Toru Hasuike raps Foreign Ministry over inaction on N. Korea

Toru Hasuike raps Foreign Ministry over inaction on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Toru Hasuike, whose brother Kaoru is one of five repatriated Japanese victims of abductions by North Korea, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News. He has expressed dissatisfaction with the Japanese Foreign Ministry, saying it is not taking a firm stance against Pyongyang.

Hasuike starts full-time teaching

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)

Toru Hasuike raps Foreign Ministry over inaction on N. Korea

Toru Hasuike raps Foreign Ministry over inaction on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Toru Hasuike, whose brother Kaoru is one of five repatriated Japanese victims of abductions by North Korea, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News. He has expressed dissatisfaction with the Japanese Foreign Ministry, saying it is not taking a firm stance against Pyongyang. (Kyodo)

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

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