- 14 Mar 2002
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Relatives of the abducted Japanese believe that some of them may have been executed.
Foreign Ministry withheld info on abducted Japanese
=> http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=230979
Gov't withheld death dates from kin of N.Korea victims
=> http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20020919p2a00m0fp026000c.html
"The ministry said the North Korean list indicated that two of the eight dead, Keiko Arimoto and Toru Ishioka, died on the same day, Nov. 4, 1988.
[...]
Arimoto disappeared in Europe in 1983 when she was 23, and Matsuki was also abducted while in Europe.
Arimoto's mother, Kayoko Arimoto, 76, said, 'They must have been executed publicly because of the letter. They were used as a warning to other Japanese, to show them what would happen to them if they wrote letters to Japan.'"
Foreign Ministry withheld info on abducted Japanese
=> http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=230979
Gov't withheld death dates from kin of N.Korea victims
=> http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20020919p2a00m0fp026000c.html
"The ministry said the North Korean list indicated that two of the eight dead, Keiko Arimoto and Toru Ishioka, died on the same day, Nov. 4, 1988.
[...]
Arimoto disappeared in Europe in 1983 when she was 23, and Matsuki was also abducted while in Europe.
Arimoto's mother, Kayoko Arimoto, 76, said, 'They must have been executed publicly because of the letter. They were used as a warning to other Japanese, to show them what would happen to them if they wrote letters to Japan.'"