The government will soon compile a plan for the nation to take in the five Japanese abductees whom North Korea recently allowed to return home and their immediate families once Pyongyang agrees to let them leave, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Wednesday.
Abe told a House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee session that the plan, which may be drawn up this week, will be comprehensive, involving both the national government and the local governments where the families may seek to reside.
The government and ruling bloc may push for Diet enactment of a law to set the support plan in motion during the current session, he said.