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5/25: JAPAN HOUSE to host screening of "The Pledge to Megumi" on Saturday, May 25 at 1:30PM

On November 15, 1977, Megumi Yokota （, then 13 years old ）, was suddenly reported missing on her way home from school after badminton practice at her junior high school. On the same night, the Niigata Chuo Police Station called an emergency meeting of all its staff and, in communication with the prefectural police headquarters, up to 220 people were mobilized to investigate. On November 16, a large-scale search operation was launched with the deployment of 760 riot police. The scale of this search party was said to be the largest ever mounted by the Niigata Prefectural Police at that time. It was later discovered that the abductions were the work of North Korean agent Shin Kwang-soo and others.
It has already been 47 years since then.

What we can do to bring Megumi Yokota and other people abducted by North Korea back to Japan is not to let the incident fade away. What we can do is to let as many people as possible know about the incident and continue to raise our voices.
Please, please invite your acquaintances and friends to the screening.

No reservation is necessary. Completely free of charge.