Yukio Ubukata, a member of the House of Representatives of the Constitutional Democratic Party, visited the office of the abduction victims' family support group "Saving Society" in Tokyo on the evening of the 11th, met with Chairman Tsutomu Nishioka, and apologized for his remarks.
After that, according to a reporter's interview, "I did not verify and speak with confidence. Both the government and the party assumed that the abductees were alive, and changed my misconception. I'm really sorry that I hurt the victim's family's feelings with unscrupulous remarks. "