A 40-year-old Kidnapping Continues to Haunt Japan

Japanese still obsess over Megumi’s fate

By: Todd Crowell

Shigeru Yokota died last week at age 87 without the chance that he would ever be reunited with his daughter Megumi, kidnapped by the North Koreans in 1977. Yokota and his wife Sakai were not the only parents of Japanese believed to have been abducted, but they were the most prominent among those pushing the government to pressure Pyongya…