shigeru yokota and his wife sakie spoke to reporters on thursday morning at a hotel near the villa. >> translator: kim has no new information about the fate of our daughter. she said she met with megumi just once. she said her colleague, who was megumi's student, introduced our daughter to kim. >> sakie said kim told her that she had left her own family behind in north korea and has no information on their fate. >> translator: we told each other that we will carry on together and keep our hopes up. she encouraged us by saying megumi must be alive. >> the former convicted spy, who helped blow up a korean air jet in 1987, arrived in japan on tuesday on a plane chartered by the japanese government. kim left the villa for tokyo on thursday morning. later in the day she'll meet the families of other japanese nationals who were abducted by north korea. megumi yokota was abducted by north korean agents 33 years ago, when she was 13. her parents are anxiously waiting for new information about their missing daughter. the picture was taken in 1977, a month before megumi was kidnapped by north k