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The Japanese government has produced a short animated film to spread awareness about Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea:

Story: In 1977, Ms. Megumi Yokota, a 13-year-old girl, disappeared on her way home from school. It was revealed later on that she was abducted by North Korea. This film features the anguish of Megumi’s family and their desperate effort to bring her back home.

Download the anime for free at this website (available in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean).

[hat tip to Jason Gray]

14 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - April 16, 2008 at 9:52 pm

Categories: Otaku & Anime, Politics Tags: abductions, crime, japan, megumi, news, north korea

http://randomurl.com LondonGaijin

North Korea kidnaps her??

Doesn’t that sound like, the whole country was in on the abduction?

Anyway, I’ll give it a watch

the overthinker

I gather that it was – or at least its government, and it’s very common to refer to the actions of a government by the country’s name. “Japan resumes whaling,” etc.

http://www.goodnessmusic.com Sean

Yet another attempt to make the North Koreans look bad…

I remember a couple years back they found the body of a woman buried close to a high school in Japan after the care-taker of the school turned himself in after 30 years. He had repeatedly raped her an then killed her. At the time in the 1970′s she was added to the “list” of kidnapped Japanese citizens. Turns out she was a victim of JAPAN’S society, not Korea’s.

Futhermore, this orginal list was probed by several Japanese magazine weeklies and found to have flaws, or extra people added to the list !!

Seems like a the investigative journalism is out the window nowadays…. it’s all about making N.Korea look as bad as possible , and I sure the orders aree coming straight from Washington D.C….

ダビ

Seems the Japanese government has learned a PR lesson… Use your most popular cultural export to spread awareness of an issue that so far only Japanese people care about, clever!

Reminds of the “Manhwa” (Korean manga) about Comfort women I saw in a Paris bookstore. Kind of ironic that they would use a cultural form invented in Japan to “fight” Japan.

Scrud

There was a documentary done a few years ago about this same event. It’s called “Abduction: The Megumi Yokata story.” I think it was done by a couple of Americans.

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Garamon

Thanks for the tip, should be interesting to watch.
green

And yet Japan condones the kidnapping of hundreds of children born to international couples in blatant violation of the custody rulings of foreign courts. If Japan was really serious about preventing the crime of international kidnapping they’d sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction like all the other G7 nations.
Check out http://www.crnjapan.com and see where Japan really stands on the issue of international child abduction.
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http://www.crnjapan.com Eric Kalmus

I have produced a couple of films regarding Japans hypocrisy when it comes to abduction.

http://www.facethetruth.net

http://www.youtube.com/ekalmus

Thank you for watching.

Best Regards;

Eric Kalmus

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