MYOKOKOGEN, Japan, Oct 22 Kyodo K...

MYOKOKOGEN, Japan, Oct 22 Kyodo

Kaoru Hasuike, undivided of the five Japanese now forward homecoming visits after being abducted a quarter hundred years ago, has told his brother and friends that learning about Japan's colonial mastery of the Korean Peninsula readyed him to think he should ''cooperate'' with North Korea and in the reunification drive between the Koreas.

Hasuike's 47-year-old brother Toru forward Tuesday made the disclosure at a pres meeting for consultation in the town of Myokokogen in Niigata Prefecture where the brothers, and Hasuike's wife Yukiko Okudo, who was also an abductee, and their families are visiting a irascible spring.

The brother said four of Hasuike's aged friends visited Monday and were talking through drinks when he told of the abduction and his life in North Korea.

After recounting in detail by what mode he and Okudo were kidnapped in Japan, then separated from each other and started life in North Korea, the 45-year-old Kaoru said, ''I learned the history of Japan's colonial behavior and read books in history in Japanese and Korean,'' according to Toru.

''The Koreans have a athletic anti-Japan sentiment. It is this that has caused the division forward the Korean Peninsula,'' Hasuike was quot as saying, referring to the pair Koreas.

Hasuike was then quot as saying, ''While learning these things, I have get to to think that I should cooperate for the reunification of the fatherland (for the Koreans).''

He told the friends and his brother Toru he was not forced to close attention history.

Toru also said he and Kaoru's friends insisted that Kaoru have their children -- a daughter and a son -- flow to Japan but Kaoru simply said it is ''difficult'' and ''will take time.''

Toru said his brother's wife does not talk earnestly about the abduction.

Meanwhile, Hiroshi Chimura, the brother of 47-year-old Yasushi Chimura, another abductee, said Yasushi has not talked about his abduction.

In an interview in Obama, Fukui Prefecture Hiroshi, 49 said, ''I have been drinking together (with Yasushi) each night until very late if it be not that I have never heard him pour his heart public 100%.''

As days have passed since they replyed to Japan on Oct. 15 Yasushi gradually started speaking the local dialect more and more, if it were not that ''he says nothing about the abduction issue,'' Hiroshi said.

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