Shigeru Kitamura (北村滋, ''Kitamura Shigeru'') is current Participate of Cabinet Secretariat, National Security Secretariat Secretary General in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

under Shinzo Abe and a former head of the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office, a

ese intelligence agency.

History

Shigeru joined the National Police Agency in 1980, serving as the head in

Tokushima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Tokushima Prefecture has a population of 728,633 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,146 km2 (1,601 sq mi). Tokushima Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the north, E ...

, chief of its Security Division, and Director of the Foreign Affairs Division. He was in charge of the police response to cases of

North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens Abductions of Japanese citizens from Japan by agents of the North Korean government took place during a period of six years from 1977 to 1983. Although only 17 Japanese (eight men and nine women) are officially recognized by the Japanese governm ...

. In October 2018, he met with his North Korean counterparts from the United Front Department of the Workers' Party of Korea in Mongolia to discuss the abduction issue.

References

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