The families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago depart for Washington to seek support from U.S legislators and government officials for their return.
The Japanese government has launched a "summit" of junior high school students across Japan in order to bring greater attention to North Korea's abduction of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s.
A group for Japanese abductees' families and its supporting entity say in a new campaign policy that they would not oppose giving humanitarian aid to North Korea if it would lead to the return of all abductees.
Despite a fruitless decades-long fight to secure the return of her daughter who was abducted by North Korean agents at age 13, Sakie Yokota says her yearning for any information about her child s whereabouts remains unrelenting.