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Hitomi Soga

Japanese kidnap victim · Japan · On the map · Born 1959 · age 67

Hitomi Soga-Jenkins is a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea together with her mother, Miyoshi Soga, from Sado Island, Japan, in 1978. In 1980, she married Charles Robert Jenkins, an American defector to North Korea, with whom she had two daughters.

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In 2002, she was allowed to return to Japan, followed two years later by her husband and children.

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Born 1959 · age 67