Families of Japanese abducted by North Korea decades ago expressed hope Tuesday that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his close aides will lead negotiations with Pyongyang to bring back all the victims.Chief Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who had his tenure extended as a government spokesman in the Cabinet reshuffle, was named to double as the minister in charge of the abduction issue. The top government spokesman is known as Abe's right-hand man.
(Shigeo Iizuka)"Having a direct subordinate of the prime minister to address the abduction issue is an advantage, which wasn't achieved in the past," said…READ FULL ARTICLE
