Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed willingness to negotiate with Pyongyang over past abductions of Japanese citizens during a meeting with a woman who was abducted to North Korea in the 1970s.
At the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday, Kishida told Hitomi Soga he wanted to hold high-level talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at an early date.
But with the abductees and their immediate family members getting older, it remains to be seen whether a meeting will be realized.
