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The Asian Journey Home
Your special issue on "the asian journey Home" was moving and thought provoking [Aug. 18-25]. It would also have been interesting to read an article by one of the Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korean agents. The victim could have described being forced to start a new life in an alien country and then, finally, being allowed to return to Japan. These Japanese were brutally snatched from their homeland and upon returning there had to leave behind children raised as North Koreans, not Japanese.
Asami Oishi
Osaka

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