The National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea or NARKN (北朝鮮に拉致された日本人を救出するための全国協議会 or simply 救う会全国協議会) was established in 1998. The purpose of NARKN is to help the families of
Japanese victims kidnapped by North Korea, who campaign for the return of their loved ones in North Korea between the 1970s and 1980s.
The chairman of NARKN is
Tsutomu Nishioka Tsutomu Nishioka (西岡 力, Nishioka Tsutomu, born 1956 in Tokyo) is a professor of International Christian Studies at Tokyo Christian University. He specializes in Japan-Korean relations, South Korea/North Korea Studies. His research focuses on ...
, a professor of
Tokyo Christian University
is a private university in Inzai, Chiba, Japan, offering an undergraduate liberal arts degree in both Japanese and English. TCU is the only evangelical university fully accredited by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science ...
.
People
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Yokota family
The Yokota family, husband Shigeru (November 14, 1932 – June 5, 2020) and wife Sakie (born February 4, 1936) along with their twin sons Takuya and Tetsuya founded the Japanese National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North K ...
** Sakie and Shiguru Yokota (parents of
Megumi Yokota
(born 5 October 1964) is a Japanese citizen who was abducted by a North Korean agent in 1977 when she was a thirteen-year-old junior high school student. She was one of at least seventeen Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1 ...
)
** Takyua and Tatusya Yokota (brothers of Megumi Yokota)
*Shingo Izuka (brother of
Yaeko Taguchi
is a Japanese citizen, one of several kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Abduction
Taguchi worked as a bar hostess in Tokyo, Japan, to raise her two children, a one-year-old son and three-year-old daughter, after divor ...
)
References
External links
Official Japanese Website
Human rights in North Korea
North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens
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