TOKYO–The wife of Japan’s incoming prime minister Yukio Hatoyama is a lifestyle guru, a macrobiotics enthusiast, a cookbook author and a retired actress. Miyuki Hatoyama also says she was abducted by ...

Tokyo, Nov. 15 (Jiji Press)--With Saturday marking 48 years since the abduction of a 13-year-old Japanese girl by North Korea, time appears to be running out for Japan to resolve the abduction issue.

TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea and Japan have agreed terms for a new investigation into Pyongyang's abduction of Japanese people in the 1970s and 1980s, officials said, opening the way for Tokyo to ...

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 ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday told family members of Japanese nationals abducted decades ago by North Korea that US President Donald Trump had made a promise to raise the issue if ...

Decades after the state-sponsored abduction of 13 of Japanese nationals, North Korea has announced that it will reopen an investigation into the case, in return for lifting sanctions against the ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Japanese and North Korean officials held talks in Pyongyang for the first time in 10 years Tuesday, meeting to assess progress into North Korea’s investigation into the ...

Niigata, Nov. 15 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara on Saturday expressed his resolve to end the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals decades ago.

In the summer of 2012, Asahi Shimbun journalist Watanabe Makoto was covering the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Station when he came across an odd story. It involved the mysterious ...

The Japanese government has posted a new video series describing how and why North Korea abducted Japanese citizens, in an effort to draw more interest about the issue from young people. The ...