yokota shigeru died on friday, 43 years after his daughter disappeared.s you'll hear in this next report, he spent half his life trying to bring her home. >> this is how megumi will be remembered. the image of the teen in her junior high school uniform is well-known in japan, attached to the abduction issue. about six months after yokota shigeru snapped the photo, his daughter was gone. it took some 20 years to learn she was abducted by north korean agents. every detail yokota uncovered, he fought for. when yokota first bebegan to spk out, t there was skepticism, th fathther put a face onon a nama issu he traveled the country and gave hundreds of speeches, asng for help to save his daughter. then came a breakthrough moment. the japanese government now says north korean agents abducted at least 17 japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s. as a bilateral summit in 2002, north korea admitted to carrying out abductions, later returning five of the people it had taken. megami was not among them. north korea said she died, but yokota n never lost hopepe. in 2006