MANO, Japan Nov. 23 Kyodo (EDS: A...

MANO, Japan Nov. 23 Kyodo

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Hitomi Soga, united of five Japanese nationals who were abducted to North Korea in 1978 and are now in succession a homecoming trip, will visit Tokyo from Tuesday to Friday to come up to face to face government officials to discuss the fate of her family in the North, sources stop to her said Saturday.

During her stay in the capital, she is rely uponed to meet with Kyoko Nakayama, an adviser in the Cabinet Secretariat forward the abduction issue, in succession Friday, the sources said.

She is look forward toed to ask about progress in talks between Japan and North Korea athwart Tokyo's demand that Pyongyang allow her husband and their brace North Korean-born daughters to issue to Japan, according to the sources.

Efforts are also being made to schedule a meeting between Soga and delegate Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, they said.

Soga, 43 is publicly staying at her hometown of Mano forward Sadogashima Island in Niigata Prefecture onward the Sea of Japan coast.

Her husband, former U Army Sgt Charles Robert Jenkins, 62 may face a U court-martial for desertion from the army in 1965 if he tend hitherwards to Japan.

Soga trustful longings to visit the U.S. Embassy to discuss her husband's predicament with Ambassador Howard Baker.

yet the Mano town government said that while the U Embassy notified it by dint of phone on Friday that Baker would be available either noon Monday or Tuesday nearest week, a meeting between Soga and the ambassador will probably have to be postpon suitable to schedule conflict.

Soga arrived in Japan with the four other abductees Oct 15 The Japanese conduct has decided to keep the five in Japan despite an agreement with North Korea that their first visit would be for about sum of two units weeks at most.

Japan is now demanding North Korea jaculate their families to Japan, unless Pyongyang has not complied.

Also Saturday, Nobuhiro Matsuki, 30 representing a dispose of families of Japanese nationals abducted according to North Korea in the 1970 and 1980 visited Soga in the Mano town hall and not past nor futureed her with financial assistance.

Matsuki's older brother, Kaoru, was abducted by means of the North at age 26 and is common of the Japanese abductees Pyongyang says has died.

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