Son of Japanese hijacker in N. Korea to travel to Japan

BEIJING, Jan. 10 Kyodo - The 14-year-old son of one of the Japanese men who hijacked a Japan Airlines airplane and defected to North Korea in 1970 will travel to Japan next week, the last of the children of the hijackers to move to Japan from the country.

A supporter of the hijackers' family members left for Pyongyang on Saturday,
where he will meet with the boy and accompany him to Japan via Beijing on
Tuesday.
The boy is the son of Moriaki Wakabayashi, 61, who is on the international
wanted list for hijacking the plane.
The supporter left the Chinese capital after obtaining a special traveling
permit from the Japanese Embassy for the boy, who was born in North Korea and
does not have a Japanese passport.
Family members of the nine hijackers began returning to Japan in 2001.
Those remaining in North Korea will be the four of the nine hijackers still
living in the country and two wives who are on the international wanted list
for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Japanese nationals for North
Korea.
The nine Japanese Red Army faction members forced a JAL Boeing 727 on a
domestic flight to fly to Pyongyang in March 1970 in the first hijacking
incident in Japan.
Three of them have died and two later returned to Japan and were convicted.
==Kyodo