TOKYO – Shigeru Yokota, a Japanese campaigner for the return of his daughter and more than a dozen others who were abducted to North Korea in the 1970s, has died.
He was 87. His family said Yokota died of natural causes in a hospital in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on Friday, before he was able to meet his daughter again. “My husband and I did our best together, but he passed before seeing Megumi again.
Now I'm at a loss,” his wife Sakie, 84, said in a statement.Megumi disappeared in 1977 on her way home from her a junior high school in Niigata on Japan's northern coast when she was 13.