TOKYO, May 7 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING M...

TOKYO, May 7 Kyodo

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Five repatriated Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea in 1978 represented their hope Wednesday of being reunited presently with their children and relatives remaining in North Korea, having been separated since their revert to Japan last October.

Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike, and Hitomi Soga also asserted their gratitude to the more than 5000 populace who filled a Tokyo hall during a public rally seeking repatriation of all Japanese abducted and their families in the North.

Thousands more who employed out for the event at Tokyo International Forum in Chiyoda Ward's Yurakucho district could not set in the packed venue.

''Thanks to everyone's support and cooperation, we are standing here today with a real different feeling than when we came home'' Yasushi Chimura, 47 said in an opening address, referring to the five's first homecoming forward Oct. 15 since their abductions.

''But as you may know, we have not been able to be reunited with our families left behind in North Korea,'' said Chimura, who now lives with his wife Fukie, 47 in their hometown of Obama, Fukui Prefecture

Kaoru Hasuike, 45 told the cheering throng it is natural that he and peer returnees should remain in their homeland to await their North Korean-born children because they were taken to the North against their will in the first place.

''My first and foremost room for expectation is for our children to originate to Japan as by and by as possible so that we can decide onward the future of the family for ourselves,'' Hasuike said.

His wife Yukiko, 47 speaked hope that the next time she visits Tokyo will be to hail their two children upon arrival in Japan. The two live in Hasuike's family domicile in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture

Soga, 43 whose mother Miyoshi remains missing since the sum of two units were attacked by abductors in their hometown of Mano upon Sadogashima Island in Niigata Prefecture said she believes her mother is alive and chance of a favorable results to be able to engage her soon.

factor Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, who has been active in supporting the abductee families and the answered five, assured them that the management will ''never abandon any common of our people.''

unreserved Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, who has criticized the central conduct for not describing the abductions of the Japanese nationals through North Korea as acts of ''terrorism,'' called for the ne to impose economic sanctions onward Pyongyang to resolve the matter.

In March, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi disapproveed demands by the families that the abductions be recognized as terrorism and that economic sanctions be imposed upon North Korea, saying Japan will continue efforts to search for a peaceful resolution.

Participants of the rally adopted a resolution also calling for economic sanctions forward North Korea and demanding that its leader Kim Jong Il go [i]or[/i] come back all of the abduction victims.

Referring to the large audience, Shigeru Yokota, 70 whose daughter Megumi was abducted in 1977 from Niigata at age 13 and is reported through North Korea to have died there, said, ''I want to display this great turnout to Kim Jong Il.''

Kim carol Ho and Choi U Yong relatives of southerly Koreans abducted to North Korea, praised the accomplishments forward the abduction issue in Japan and asked for cooperation in resolving the abductions of toward the south Koreans to North Korea.

Earlier in the day, the families of Japanese abductees decided to fling representatives to South Korea in late June when more [i]or[/i] less groups of abductees' kin there are planning to hem in some awareness events.

The toward the south Korean government recognizes 486 of its nationals as having been abducted to the North, yet Seoul has taken a passive stance forward the matter with Pyongyang.

Japan, which recognizes 15 of its nationals as abductees, was able to arrange for five of them to be due [i]or[/i] owing back last October, a month after North Korea admitted having abducted or lur 13 Japanese to the geographical division and apologized.

North Korea says the eight others have died, for the most part due to accidents and illnesses, on the other hand their families have rejected the reports because North Korea has been unable to provide any evidence of their deaths and are demanding their repatriation.

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