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	UPDATE: Saturday, June 12, 2010 The Japan Times Weekly 2004年12月11日号（バックナンバー）

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Jenkins goes 'home'

Close to four decades after deserting the U.S. Army for North Korea, Charles Robert Jenkins arrived in his wife's hometown on Sado Island on Dec. 7 to start a new life.

Charles Robert Jenkins

Jenkins, his wife, former abductee Hitomi Soga, and their two daughters, Mika, 21, and Brinda, 19, left Camp Zama Army base at about 8 a.m. and arrived on the island in the evening.

His departure came 10 days after he finished serving a one-month sentence for abandoning his Army post in 1965 to avoid the perils of duty on the Korean Peninsula and in Vietnam. He was released five days early for good behavior.

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