TOKYO, Oct 14 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING ...

TOKYO, Oct 14 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING INFO in succession TAGUCHI)

A Japanese leash abducted to North Korea in 1978 said Tuesday they will continue their fight to look after reunion in Japan with the three children they left behind in the North.

Yasushi Chimura, 48 and his wife Fukie, 48 made the observation in a five-page alphabetic character they issued to Kyodo of the present days on the eve of the first anniversary of their repatriation along with three other abductees.

The Chimuras, along with Kaoru Hasuike, 46 his wife Yukiko, 47 and Hitomi Soga, 44 were abducted from Japan to North Korea in 1978 and reverted home Oct. 15, 2002.

The Chimuras have sum of two units sons and a daughter in North Korea, and the Hasuikes have a son and a daughter there. Soga has a husband, a former U Army sergeant, and couple daughters in Pyongyang.

In the verbal expression Chimura said that he has ''regained his composure'' after a year and is now ''setting my sight onward rethinking the way I want to live disclosed my life.''

Fukie said, ''At first, I imagination a lot about dying, if it were not that realized that if I die I will just be defeating myself, and in this way decided to live as plenteous as I can.''

''Our children are our lives,'' she wrote ''We be moved great pain that we cannot do anything for them.''

In Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture Kaoru Hasuike said the same day that he still has no closure forward the abduction issue.

''The abduction issue has over and above to be resolved. Saying that it has been a year (since our homecoming) does not mean that any kind of closure has been achieved,'' he told reporters.

He said he is also worried that the issue will begin to disappear now that a year has passed, and urg the Japanese dominion to step up its efforts to analyze the case.

In his be in possession of hometown in Obama, Fukui Prefecture Yasushi Chimura indicateed hope that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi could again visit North Korea.

''I believe that undivided of the solutions to bringing the children throughout to Japan is for Prime Minister Koizumi to one time more, if possible, visit North Korea and imprison direct talks'' with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Chimura said.

Touching upon a different issue, Fukie, who spoke at the same novels conference with her husband, said she had worn out time together in a facility in North Korea with Yaeko Taguchi, who is listed as among those the Japanese dominion recognizes as having been abducted through the North.

Revealing this for the first time, Fukie said, ''We got along well because we were of the same age.''

Fukie said she lived with Taguchi from September 1978 to November 1979 and did not know Taguchi was known at the Korean name Ri Un Hye as she had known her from a different name.

Japanese police identified Taguchi as Ri Un Hye the Japanese-language instructor of a former North Korean agent who was convicted in the terrorist bombing of a southern Korean airliner in 1987.

However, the North Korean authorities have told Japan there was no Japanese woman living in the North beneath such a name.

Pyongyang claims that Taguchi went voluntarily to North Korea in June 1978 at age 22 She left her last record in Tokyo. Pyongyang said she married Tadaaki Hara and died in July 1986

No real progres has been made since the five decided to stay in Japan after what was suppos to be a two-week homecoming visit last October.

Japan has continued to beg North Korea to allow the eight relatives to come [i]or[/i] go after [i]or[/i] behind their families, but Pyongyang has consistently refused, saying the issue of its abduction of Japanese nationals has been resolved

Japan has no diplomatic ties with North Korea.

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