The Association supports the victims of North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The Yokotas' daughter Megumi was kidnapped in 1977 by North Korean spies; her current whereabouts are unknown.
Sakie Yokota once met with U.S. President George W. Bush to talk about demanding sanctions on North Korea and in 2013 she testified about her daughter's abduction.
[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Also in 2014, Sakie Yokota met U.S. President Barack Obama to discuss the case of her daughter and other abductees.
"[1] On September 19, 2017, President of the United States Donald Trump, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, included Yokota in a series of accusations against the North Korean government, saying, "We know it kidnapped a sweet 13-year-old Japanese girl from a beach in her own country to enslave her as a language tutor for North Korea's spies.