The Japan Times
Sakie Yokota, the 90-year-old mother of a Japanese national abducted by North Korea in 1977, laments the lack of progress in fulfilling her long-cherished wish to bring her daughter back to Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/04/japan/north-korea-abductee-mother-sakie-yokota/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #northkorea #abductions #sakieyokota #megumiyokota #minorukihara
90-year-old mother of abductee laments lack of progress on securing return

Sakie Yokota has not seen her daughter, Megumi, since her 1977 abduction at the age of 13 in the city of Niigata on her way home from junior high school.

The Japan Times
Feb 4 at 10:34amBuffer