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Gov't to invite abductee's family to live in Japan
Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, July 6, 2004
The Japanese government will invite the husband and two daughters of former North Korea abductee Hitomi Soga to live permanently in Japan when the four meet in Jakarta on Friday, officials said.The Japanese government will invite the husband and two daughters of former North Korea abductee Hitomi Soga to live permanently in Japan when the four meet in Jakarta on Friday, officials said.....
The husband, Charles Jenkins, is reportedly reluctant to come to Japan because he is afraid of being handed over to the United States for his 1965 desertion of the U.S. military in South Korea when he went to North Korea.
Japanese officials are discussing how to persuade the U.S. to abandon its plans to detain Jenkins, while at the same time trying to convince him to settle in Japan with Soga and their two daughters