KAWASAKI--The mother of Japan’s most famous abductee talked about the indescribable emptiness that fills her days as she marked the 45th anniversary of her daughter’s disappearance on Nov. 15. Megumi ...

Yokota Megumi vanished on her way home from school 48 years ago. It later turned out she had been abducted by North Korea. Japan says North Korean agents kidnapped at least 17 of its citizens in the ...

For the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents decades ago, this week is perhaps the best shot they’ve had in years of substantive progress. Not only does Japan have a new prime ...

TOKYO — The mother of a 13-year-old Japanese girl kidnapped by North Korean agents 47 years ago expressed hope Wednesday that President Donald Trump will help return all Japanese abductees. Sakie ...

In a quiet but resolute voice, 89-year-old Sakie Yokota stood before a crowd of about 800 people in Tokyo, speaking not just as a mother, but as the last surviving parent suffering as a result of ...

Twenty years after her hopes were raised, Sakie Yokota’s optimism that she would one day be reunited with her daughter – missing for almost half a century – has long since faded. In its place is a ...

KAWASAKI -- Forty years after Megumi Yokota was abducted from Niigata Prefecture by North Korean agents, her mother, 81-year-old Sakie Yokota asked at a press conference, "Why it is that she's in a ...

The abduction issue has long been treated as a bilateral concern between Japan and North Korea. But amid shifting geopolitics, it warrants a broader regional response. Yokota Sakie holds a press ...

Imagine that one day, out of the blue, a friend or family member disappears and are taken abroad. For decades you and your loved ones have been torn apart. Well, not so long ago, at least 17 Japanese ...

Sakie Takada (高田 紗希衣, Takada Sakie, March 23) is a Japanese voice actor Osaka Prefecture. She is affiliated with Apte Pro. Since October 2014, she is a member of the girls unit L.F.O. as SAKIE, signed ...