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Saturday June 10, 9:54 AMSupporter of hijacker's daughter heads to N. Korea(Kyodo) _ A supporter of a 27-year-old daughter of one of the Japanese men who hijacked a Japan Airlines airplane and defected to North Korea in 1970 left Beijing for Pyongyang on Saturday, where he will meet the woman and accompany her to Japan.The supporter left the Chinese capital after obtaining a special permit from the Japanese Embassy there for Rei Shibata, who was born in North Korea and does not have a Japanese passport, to travel to Japan. The two are expected to travel to Japan on Tuesday. Shibata is the daughter of one of the nine men who hijacked the plane and Japanese woman Megumi Yao, who has confessed in a Japanese court of her involvement in the 1983 abduction of Japanese woman Keiko Arimoto to North Korea from Europe. Shibata's father was arrested in 1988 in Japan and finished serving time in 1994. Shibata will be the 24th family member of the nine hijackers to return to Japan or travel there after being born in North Korea. Four of the nine hijackers are still in North Korea. |
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