SHIGERU YOKOTA, FATHER OF MEGUMI WHO WAS KIDNAPPED TO NORTH KOREA, SPEAKS IN TOKYO, 2002-09-26 (photo)

Shigeru Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was kidnapped to North Korea at the age of 13, speaks to reporters during a news conference in Tokyo September 26, 2002. Family members of Japanese abducted to North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s assembled with parliamentary supporters prior to a scheduled meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Friday. They said they were still hopeful that their loved ones were still alive and that they would ask Koizumi to rescue those abductees or press him to gather convincing evidence on the circumstances of deaths. REUTERS/Eriko Sugita ES/CP