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Yubaru
As a parent myself, I can not imagine the suffering she and all the other families who had loved one's abducted have gone through.
The inability of all the Japanese governments, mainly the LDP to do anything constructive, to bring this issue to an end, should shame them. Yet I believe that they really don't give a crap!
Aly Rustom
After Koizumi revisited Pyongyang in 2004, North Korea handed over to Japan cremated remains it claims to be those of Megumi, but they were later proven through DNA analysis not to be hers.
No they weren't. This is inaccurate information.
The Japanese gov made this political with Chief Cabinet Secretary, Hiroyuki Hosoda, referred to this article as inadequate and a misrepresentation of the government-commissioned analysis, Nature responded in an editorial (17 March), saying that:[18]
This has turned into a political circus. The J-Gov screwed up when they contaminated the remains given to them. Thanks to them we will never know if in fact they were Megumi's remains or not. But to say that DNA analysis proved that the remains were not in fact hers is just plain false.
I'm not defending NK at all, but we do have to get our facts straight.
kurisupisu
All I can say is that the situation seems contrived.
If not contrived then the only alternative to consider is that Japanese politicians are useless.
Judging from their keen ability for self aggrandizing and ability to amass money at a rate far higher than the average Japanese then this theory has to be discounted.
Thus,
North Korea is a convenient scape goat that is easily used to draw attention away from any growing scandal or government screw up of the day.
Getting rid of North Korean problem would be extremely disadvantageous for the LDP…
Gaijinjland
Feel sorry for the family but she is long gone and probably did pass away like the North said a long time ago.
Sam Watters
The families of the abductees are a tiresome group. They have had audiences with Prime Ministers and US presidents and lord only knows who else. They receive a substantial amount of government and wield far more political power than they deserve. Yes, it is a tragedy that their relatives were abducted but then if the really cared they might have done more to actual get them back instead of just hold and whine at press conferences. The Yokotas were/are the worst.
knight_of_Honour
Anyone with deceased family members who were close, especially children, will always remember them and wish they were still close. I always remember my deceased first son on his birthday. He will always be in my heart for as long as I live. He was half Japanese.