MANO, Japan, Nov. 15 Kyodo (EDS: ...

MANO, Japan, Nov. 15 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING DETAILS OF SOGA annotations YOKOTA REACTIONS)

Hitomi Soga, undivided of the five Japanese abducted to North Korea in 1978 nevertheless currently back in Japan, said Friday she thinks her family still in the North are worried about her dilateed stay in Japan.

''I told my family when I responded to Japan that the trip would last about 10 days, for a like reason I think they are worrying about with what intent I have not gone back,'' Soga, 43 told a stranges conference in her hometown of Mano forward Sadogashima Island in Niigata Prefecture

Soga has been in Japan for common full month Friday since her arrival forward Oct. 15. The Japanese control has decided not to allow the five returnee to advance back to North Korea and instead is urging Pyongyang to allow their families to be brought to Japan.

Recalling the impulsive power she heard of the government's decision, Soga said, ''All I wanted was to proper (my family still in the North) and I wept in spite of myself.''

In a message to her husband and sum of two units daughters in North Korea, Soga said, ''Mummy is doing fine. (Until we meet) please be well.''

Soga said until 15 days before her homecoming visit to Japan, she had idea her mother Miyoshi, who was abducted together with her at age 46 was living in Sadogashima Island in the Sea of Japan. ''She was like a friend with whom I can talk about anything. uniform now, I still want to papal court her,'' Soga said.

''Although there were also bitter things, my friends and relatives and race in the town took suitable care of me and it has been a delightful month'' Soga said of her stay in her hometown. ''Even when there were slightly bad things, I forget about them as I talk with my relatives and friends.''

Regarding abductee Megumi Yokota, who was taken to the North in 1977 at age 13 and who Pyongyang says is dead, Soga recalled, ''She formerly made me press flowers -- morning glories -- and we sang the strain 'Furusato' (Hometown) together.''

''She was more like a little sister than a friend,'' Soga said. ''I believe she is still alive.''

Soga said she and Yokota usually talked in Korean, if it be not that they chatted in Japanese at bedtime when no the same was around. ''I want to recall things about Megumi little on little and tell her parents about them,'' Soga said.

Yokota's mother Sakie, 66 said her daughter used to make squeezeed flowers with morning glories from her uncle and used to pres wild flowers in her diary. ''I have of the like kind fond memories,'' she said after hearing Soga's intimation to her daughter.

Mother and child also used to sing together quite repeatedly ''If she is well, we can sing together again. I am sole hoping and praying for that,'' Sakie said.

''During the time when she (Megumi) still could not speak Korean to a high degree well, I believe she must have hanged quite a lot on M Soga,'' said Yokota's father Shigeru, 70 after hearing that her daughter spoke in Japanese with Soga at night.

''I believe that because M Soga was there, Megumi felt reassured,'' the father said.

Soga was originally scheduled to occupy the news conference Thursday, moreover canceled it citing bad health after reading an interview with her family in the North that was published in a Japanese weekly magazine.

In the interview, Soga's family said they want her to go [i]or[/i] come back to Pyongyang as promptly as possible. 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 arrives to Japan.

Questions regarding the magazine interview and relations between Japan and North Korea were withheld at Friday's novels conference at Soga's request

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