Photos of North Korean abductee go on show at Shinjuku Station

ahead of the U.S.-North Korea summit, a photograph exhibition at the existence of Megumi Yokota, who was kidnapped by North Korean sellers at age 13 in 1977, started at one of the busiest educate stations in Tokyo on may also 7.

Fifteen photos, consisting of those taken on circle of relatives holiday trips and her college sports day, are displayed on the wall of a bustling concourse of Tokyo Metro’s Marunouchi Line at Shinjuku Station.

U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed a willingness to raise the concern of overseas residents kidnapped with the aid of Pyongyang on the summit anticipated to be held by using early June.

The exhibition turned into organized by way of a aid group of Yokota's own family to “make the maximum of the largest and likely the closing threat” by using elevating public recognition of the difficulty earlier than the summit. adding to the urgency, Megumi’s father, Shigeru Yokota, eighty five, who took maximum of the photographs on display, has been hospitalized due to negative health because April.

“it is heart-wrenching to peer the juxtaposition of her sad-searching face shot in North Korea and her smiles with her circle of relatives,” stated a lady in her 20s who stopped in the front of the pictures on her manner to paintings. “i hope the difficulty indicates a few progress in the course of the U.S.-North Korea summit.”

The exhibition will remain on show inside the concourse via might also thirteen.