Tokyo remained guarded about Pyongyang’s intentions after North Korea signaled that the “abduction issue” would be off the agenda for a possible bilateral summit. North Korea’s official Korean Central ...

Hitomi Soga, 66, a Japanese victim of abduction by North Korea, gave an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun in Sado, Niigata ...

Despite much promise and a flurry of activity, it didn't happen: Japan failed to ratify the Hague Convention on international child abduction and pass the extensive piece of accompanying domestic ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has pledged to make utmost efforts to resolve as soon as possible the issue of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea. Takaichi met relatives of the ...

Trump "told me that he accurately conveyed my thoughts about the issue to Mr Kim," Abe said, but declined to elaborate. Translation: "Son, you're on your own." Kim-san is not stupid. He realizes he ...

Why is Japan considered a haven for parental child abductors? Can an international treaty resolve the underlying issues? With Japan finally set to join the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of ...

Tokyo, Nov. 15 (Jiji Press)--With Saturday marking 48 years since the abduction of a 13-year-old Japanese girl by North Korea, time appears to be running out for Japan to resolve the abduction issue.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fields questions from reporters at the prime minister's official residence in central Tokyo shortly after a press conference by President Donald Trump of the United States in ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Thursday with families of people abducted by North Korea decades ago and pledged to deal directly with the North to resolve the issue. Abe vowed to ...