Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story

On the morning of Nov. 15, 1977, 13-year-old Megumi Yokota left her house in the Japanese coastal town of Niigata and headed off for school. Her mother, Sakie, knew she had badminton practice after classes, but when night began to fall and Megumi still hadn't returned home, Sakie began to worry. As she and her husband, Shigeru, began frantically searching the neighborhood for some sign of their daughter, Sakie imagined the worst: Megumi was being held by kidnappers for ransom, or perhaps she'd been sexually assaulted. The truth, however, would prove to be far more unbelievable, and wouldn't become known to the Yokota family for several years to come, when a defecting...