Yesterday, I went to Horie area to get my pants altered.

The pants I got from UNIQLO were too long for me, and I needed to fix the bottoms of my pants

As today is a day off, and I was very lazy, I stayed home all day.

I found a documentary about North Korean abduction of Japanses citizens on Youtube.

In 1970~80s, 17 Japanese people were kidnapped by North Korea.

One of the victims, Megumi Yokota's father, Shigeru Yokota passed away on 5th of June.

That is a reason I looked for documentaries about this program.

 

The program broke my heart a lot.

What if it happened to my family? I don't have a child, so I imagined it with my parents.

Megumi's location wasn't known for 20 years after she was abducted in 1977.

The situaeion is like...my mother went missing when I was 13 in 2000, and now I finally knew that she was in North Korea in 2020.

I'm 33 this year. Probably, I would do all the things I could do to find her.

When I imagine the pain or agony of the victims' families, I'm just speechless.

 

The difficult thing of this problem is North Korea isn't a decent country at all.

I would say if the country is decent, it didn't do such a abduction.

That means, it makes very difficult for Japanese government to make the diplomatic relations with the country.

Japan needs to value Article 9 of Constitution, I strongly believe it.

However, there should be a way to enter North Korea and take all victims back peacefully.

 

Victims' Families never give up on their family's lives.

Hello again. I'm Lemonade.

It's been... say 3 years sinse I posted an article last time.

I even didn't know that RAMUNE in Japanese is "Lemonade" in Enlglish when I was 

writing diaries here haha

So, I'm Lemonade. Wow, that sounds a bit fasionable, isn't it?

 

The reason why I started writing an article here again, is that I felt I'm a really really

useless person today. At work, I just noticed that I am.

I couldn't concentrate on working at all, and tried to run away from work...

As a jornalist, I'm "unqualified". But why don't I clear up the problems here.

As a person, one of the most important things for me is my job as a journalist.

Even though, I haven't been in a relationship and have wanted one for a long time, 

I'm totally OK with it if I'm satisfied with my work.

 

But how the situation now? Am I doing fine?

I don't think so.

 

Tomorrow is Saturday, but I need to work.

It's a great chance to consider my work, isn't it?

 

I'd like to make my life better, is all.

And for that, I shoudn't run away from my work.

 

Ok, I'm just repeating the same thing here haha

Reading my old diaries, the past me gave me some good advice actually.

 

Lemonade!! Dont't give up. You can deal with it.