An influential citizens' group investigating the abduction of Japanese citizens to North Korea released Friday a list of 40 more cases that it wants the government to look into.
The National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea also established the same day a separate body to independently investigate the cases.
The people on the new list comprise 27 men and 13 women who went missing between the mid-1950s and mid-1990s.
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