Sakie Yokota holds a photo of her daughter, Megumi

The team said it returned with medical records, photographs, personal possessions and artifacts that would be examined to ensure North Korea had been honest in saying they had died.

But Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said he was not satisfied that North Korea had revealed all it knew about the victims.

The team came back with a copy of Yokota's medical record, a student's handbook, three photographs and collections of her scribblings, media reports said.

In Pyongyang, the team questioned for the first time Yokota's purported North Korean husband, Kim Chol Jun, at a hospital.

North Korea says Kim and Yokota married in 1986, and that Yokota gave birth to a daughter a year later.

Reports said North Korea handed over more details on the alleged deaths of other kidnap victims, including weather data for a beach where Shuichi Ichikawa was said to have drowned and a police record of a traffic accident in which Yaeko Taguchi was purported to have died.

Pyongyang gave a photograph and a sketchy map of a guesthouse where Toru Ishioka and Keiko Arimoto were said to have died of gas poisoning in 1988, the reports said.

The Japan Times Weekly: Nov. 20, 2004
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