{"id":487028,"date":"2026-06-11T05:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/487028\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:42:08","slug":"manga-on-north-korean-abductions-published-amid-little-progress-over-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/487028\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga on North Korean abductions published amid little progress over issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A manga mixing fiction with facts and actual tactics used by North Korea to kidnap Japanese nationals has been published in Japan, in order to draw attention to the issue of abduction by Pyongyang\u2019s agents, which has seen little progress for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was difficult to create a manga based on the (decades-old) abduction issue, which does not yet have an ending,\u201d manga artist Akiko Tomita said at an event held in the city of Musashino in western Tokyo on April 10 to celebrate the publishing of \u201cOre Antif@ Rachi Ge no Kyosei Event kara Nigeraremasen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The over-400-page manga was completed without pay for Tomita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A manga mixing fiction with facts and actual tactics used by North Korea to kidnap Japanese nationals has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,31126,16010,225266],"class_list":["post-487028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-manga","tag-north-korea","tag-north-korea-japan-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}