Missing man added to abductee list | 日本のニュースを英語で読むならジャパンタイムズウィークリー


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Missing man added to abductee list

Minoru Tanaka

The government April 25 added a man who went missing in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in 1978 to the list of Japanese whom it officially recognizes as having been abducted by North Korea, sources said.

This will bring the number of such people on the list to 11.

The man is Minoru Tanaka, who disappeared at the age of 28.

The case of Tanaka, who was a noodle shop employee in Kobe, came to light in 1997 after a now-deceased man believed to be a spy for the North confessed that Tanaka was taken to North Korea via Vienna in Austria at the invitation of the noodle shop owner, who was also a spy for Pyongyang.

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