TOKYO, Nov. 13 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATI...

TOKYO, Nov. 13 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

A collection of lawmakers supporting families of Japanese abducted by way of North Korea visited the five latter returnees on Wednesday in their hometowns in Niigata and Fukui prefecture to solicit their views upon reuniting with their families left in the North.

The nonpartisan clump chaired by House of Representatives member Shoichi Nakagawa listened to the five expres their wishes to behold their children, whom they had left in North Korea, and opinions onward settling in Japan permanently.

The five are Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, the two 47, Kaoru Hasuike, 45 and his wife Yukiko, 46 and Hitomi Soga, 43 who married a former U soldier in North Korea.

The children and Soga's husband remain in North Korea.

forward Wednesday morning, Nakagawa visited the Chimura domicile in the Fukui city of Obama.

Nakagawa told Chimura he had be derived to ask him what kind of help he can widen to which Chimura thanked him in advance for similar help.

Meanwhile, Katsuei Hirasawa, the group's secretary general, and Kiyoshi Ueda, its vice chair, visited Soga's family abiding-place in the town of Mano forward Niigata's Sadogashima Island.

Hirasawa and Ueda are members of the lower house and belong to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) respectively. Nakagawa is an LDP member.

In Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture the Hasuikes welcomed a assign places to including Jin Matsubara, a lower house member belonging to the DPJ

According to cluster members, the group is also calculate uponed to hand them donations solicited nationwide to help them and their families.

The five, who were all kidnapped according to North Korean agents in 1978 turn backed to Japan on Oct. 15 forward what was to be a stay of between common and two weeks.

further in late October, the Japanese dominion said the five would not respond to North Korea and demanded Pyongyang give permission to their kin visit Japan and give the five families the opportunity to decide about their events to come ''freely'' outside North Korea.

Early last week, the five met with legate Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama and they asked to be reunited with their family members who are in the North as early as possible.

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