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© KYODOShigeo Iizuka, ex-head of N Korea abductee families group, dies at 83
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sakurasuki
It's disappointing that this issue just being used every time new leader show up in Japan without any real progress happened.
Iron Lad
RIP!
Samit Basu
Rest in peace.
You will finally get to meet your loved ones awaiting for you in heaven.
snowymountainhell
Your vigilance has ended, loving brother Shigeo Iizuka. Go now, find your loved ones and “Rest in Peace”.
kennyG
Do as US or Russia would do if their citizen got abducted off the street.
thaonephil
half his life wasted in fighting for justice from a dictatorship and a weak Japanese goverment, sad ending for his story.
voiceofokinawa
Hitomi Soga was abducted by North Korean agents together with her mother. Soga is one of the five abductees having been able to return to Japan in 2002.
The Japanese government believes 12 of the 17 abductees are still retained by North Korea. Soga's mother is one of them.
North Korea, on the other hand, says "eight have died and the other four never entered the country." North Korea's claims may be right, but it must be clarified under what circumstances death occurred. Soga's mother may have died of a heart attack or something while on board the agents' vessel heading to North Korea, retained separately from her daughter.
Mark E
Remains returned to Japan were DNA tested and showed they were not the remains of the individuals stated by North Korea. Its no wonder NK can't be trusted.
voiceofokinawa
Mark E,
FYI. If the returned remains had already been cremated, it's said a DNA analysis would be next to impossible to perform. And I think the remains had already been cremated.
kennyG
Under the influence of Confucianism, cremation has been long hated as " same as killing the dead twice", thus interment is still common in North. You know the bereaved families wouldn't believe North anyway