Megumi Yokota
Megumi Yokota | |
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Megumi Yokota in a 1977 photo taken in North Korea after her abduction from her hometown in Japan | |
| Born | 5 October 1964 (would be 60) Nagoya, Japan |
| Disappeared | 15 November 1977 (aged 13) Niigata Prefecture |
| Status | Missing for 47 years, 7 months and 4 days |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Student |
Megumi Yokota (横田 めぐみ, Yokota Megumi) (born 5 October 1964) is a Japanese citizen who was abducted by a North Korean agent in 1977 when she was a thirteen-year-old junior high school student. She was one of at least seventeen Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The North Korean government has admitted to kidnapping Yokota, but has said that she died in captivity. Yokota's parents and others in Japan have publicly expressed the belief that she is still alive in North Korea and have waged a public campaign seeking her return to Japan.