The 89-year-old mother of Megumi Yokota, one of the most high-profile victims of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals decades ago, has spoken of her own experiences as a wartime evacuee, saying the loneliness and privations she suffered help her understand something of what her daughter must have faced."I was forced to live a life separated from my parents," Sakie Yokota said in an interview ahead of the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II on Aug. 15, 1945. "The situation and feelings I felt then overlap" with Megumi's circumstances, she said.At age 9, Yokota was…READ FULL ARTICLE
