Megumi Yokota
Lahir	5 Oktober 1964 (would be 61) Nagoya, Jepang[1]
Menghilang	15 November 1977 (pada umur 13 tahun) Prefektur Niigata
Status	Hilang selama 48 tahun, 5 bulan dan 8 hari
Kebangsaan	Jepang
Pekerjaan	Pelajar

Megumi Yokota (横田 めぐみcode: ja is deprecated , Yokota Megumi, lahir 5 Oktober 1964) adalah seorang warga negara Jepang yang diculik oleh agen Korea Utara pada 1977 saat ia menjadi murid berusia tiga belas tahun. Ia adalah salah satu dati setidaknya tujuh belas warga Jepang yang diculik oleh Korea Utara pada akhir 1970an dan awal 1980an. Pemerintah Korea Utara mengaku telah menculik Yokota, tetapi dikatana bahwa ia meninggal dalam penahanan. Orangtua Yokota dan orang lainnya di Jepang secara terbuka menyatakan keyakinan bahwa ia masih hidup di Korea Utara dan mengadakan kampanye terbuka untuk mendorong pemulangannya ke Jepang.^[2]

1. ^ https://mainichi.jp/articles/20190323/k00/00m/040/202000c, 28 January 2021
2. ^ Kirby, Michael Donald; Biserko, Sonja; Darusman, Marzuki (7 February 2014). "Report of the detailed findings of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - A/HRC/25/CRP.1". United Nations Human Rights Council: 298 (Paragraph 934–935). Diarsipkan dari versi aslinya tanggal February 27, 2014. Ms Yokota Megumi was 13 years old when she was taken by force on her journey home from school in the coastal area of Niigata prefecture, Japan. In 2002, when Kim Jong-il admitted to her abduction, Ms Yokota was alleged to have died at the age of 29. However, the death certificate provided in support of this assertion appears to have been falsified, and DNA tests on the remains said to be hers were not a positive match. Megumi appears to have married Mr Kim Young-nam of the ROK, also abducted in his teens by the DPRK. Together they have one daughter. Ms Yokota's parents, Mrs Yokota Sakie and Mr Yokota Shigeru, are tireless campaigners for all abductees. They appeared before the Commission at the Tokyo Public Hearing in August 2013: "[When] I saw the photos for the first time [of Megumi as a] grownup... We wept so much. … For the first time, I saw her in the photo, and we really were so sad. We looked for her everywhere last 20 years, and now she is in Pyongyang, and we felt so bad. I finally discovered her, and still we cannot save her, and we said sorry for her … I wept so much that we still cannot help her."

• "Tokyo ‘Hiding Knowledge of Megumi Yokota’s Death’", The Chosun Ilbo, August 17, 2006.
• "Until The Day We Sing Together", mylessenex.com, March 24, 2003.
• "Accounted For, At Last", Time (Asia), September 24, 2002.
• "Clues Found in North Korean Kidnappings", The Dong-a Ilbo, January 7, 2006.
• "U.S. folk star writes song about abductee Yokota", The Japan Times, February 16, 2007.
• "Parental love versus Kim Jong-il", By Kosuke Takahashi of Asia Times Online, April 28, 2009.

• ABDUCTION: The Megumi Yokota Story site for Independent Lens on PBS
• Blogs.wsj.com, Peter Frampton records two songs for Megumi
• KIDNAPPED! The Japan-North Korea Abduction Cases Interview with director Melissa K. Lee
• "Megumi Yokota seen alive 2 months after N. Korea said she had died". Mainichi Shimbun. May 26, 2008. Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal May 27, 2008. Diakses tanggal 2008-05-26.
• The abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korea, National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea (NARKN), Japanese support group for the families of the abducted victims
• Until They Took Her Away

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