For eight more Japanese abductees, officials claimed deaths caused by accidents or illnesses; Japan says this leaves two still unaccounted for, and says that what the North claimed were the ashes of Megumi Yokota were not hers.
The book is about her daughter, Megumi, who was kidnapped in 1977 at the age of 13, in an incident related to a series of North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens from 1977 to 1983.
The ex-husband of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, himself a suspected abductee from the South, was allowed to meet his South Korean mother in 2006, but Yokota's parents called the meeting a publicity stunt by Pyongyang, meant to isolate his daughter from her Japanese family, as the man has now remarried a native North Korean and has a son with her.
It was adapted as a manga authored by Souichi Mato, who wrote about Karou Haisuke's and Megumi Yokota's lives in North Korea.
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