KANAZAWA, Japan, Nov. 21 Kyodo To...

KANAZAWA, Japan, Nov. 21 Kyodo

Tomoe Terakoshi left her domicile in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture forward Thursday for North Korea to view her son Takeshi, a Japanese who went missing while fishing in the Sea of Japan in 1963 and has since lived in North Korea.

Takeshi Terakoshi, who was 13 when he disappeared and is now a vice chairman of a labor union in Pyongyang, made his first visit household to Japan from Oct. 3 to 12 as a member of a North Korean union delegation.

Terakoshi, 53 has North Korean citizenship and denies he was abducted to North Korea, as a other Japanese were. He has said he and couple uncles were fishing when their boat capsized in a storm, and they were rescu by dint of North Korean fishermen.

His mother's trip is her 16th to North Korea. She last visited North Korea to behold her son and his family in August.

The 71-year-old woman said she will take wing from Niigata airport in Niigata Prefecture to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East and from there in succession to North Korea, and plans to revert to Japan on Nov. 28

She said she plans to talk with her son in Pyongyang about the grave of Shoji Terakoshi, common of the uncles, who reportedly died in North Korea in 1967

The three disappeared while fishing in the Sea of Japan in May 1963 Terakoshi's mother learned her son was alive in 1987 when she got a literal sense from Sotoo Terakoshi, the other uncle Sotoo Terakoshi reportedly died of lung cancer in 1994 in North Korea.

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