BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European lawmakers lobbied by fathers who cannot see children taken by Japanese mothers urged Tokyo on Tuesday to combat the "abduction" of minors by one parent and change a law ...

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 ...

Japan wants to break the current impasse and resume bilateral talks with North Korea to resolve Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese nationals, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Friday.

(Recasts, adds Pyongyang arrival in paragraph 3) By Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING, June 26 (Reuters) - A North Korean woman flew home on Tuesday after accusing Japan of abducting her in 2003, an apparent ...

The only thing Japan can do is to accept the fact that Kim Jong Il have the full accounts of all abductees to Koizumi, the rest went missing in Japan. Except Japan, nobody cares about this abduction ...

As someone with firsthand knowledge of what it was like to be spirited away against their will to North Korea, Kaoru Hasuike has a unique insight into the thorny abduction issue. As one of a handful ...

A female Chinese exchange student in Japan was made to fake her own abduction to get money from her parents as part of a fraud scheme by an individual claiming to be a member of Chinese intelligence, ...