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Yaeko Taguchi (田口 八重子, Taguchi Yaeko, born August 10, 1955) is a Japanese citizen, one of several kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Feb 7, 2021 · Yaeko Taguchi, also known as Megumi Yokota, was a 13-year-old girl who was kidnapped by North Korean agents from a beach in Japan in 1977. She was forced to work as a spy trainer and never returned home.
Jun 3, 2024 · Yaeko Taguchi was abducted in 1978, vanishing while leaving behind one-year-old son Koichiro. A decade later came the confession of a North Korean spy.
May 1, 2024 · Joining the news conference, Koichiro Iizuka, whose mother, Yaeko Taguchi, was abducted at age 22, called the de facto abolition of a U.N. panel monitoring North Korea's compliance with U.N ...
- The Japan Times
Sep 27, 2022 · Kim Hyon-hui (AKA Kim Hyeon-hui), a former North Korean agent who in Pyongyang had contacts with abductees Yaeko Taguchi (now 67 years old), and Megumi Yokota (now 57 years old), and who later carried out the 1987 Korean Air Flight bombing, gave an interview to The Sankei Shimbun in Seoul on September 15. In the interview Kim Hyon ...
- Norio Sakurai
Jan 20, 2011 · Japan and South Korea were informed in December that Yaeko Taguchi, a Japanese kidnapped to North Korea, was seen alive in Pyongyang last year along with two South Korean...
May 3, 2016 · WASHINGTON — Yaeko Taguchi was last seen in downtown Tokyo leaving work at a cabaret in 1978. Only decades later did her son learn that she was among an unknown number of...
