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Obama is a small city in Fukui-prefecture in Japan.

（Click here to know about Obama-City)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama,_Fukui

It is a tiny quiet town facing the beautiful sea
of Wakasa-Bay and it has many beautiful Buddhism
temples as well as the beauty of nature. --It is
called “anoter NARA with the sea”.

The tiny city became famous since Mr.Barak Obama
appeared in US, for the simple reason the city has
the same name with him.
After Mr.Obama won the presidential election,
this quiet city facing the Sea of Japan excited
at the news their name has become the same with
the US president.

This morning, I watched the NHK news about the
inauguration of President Barak Obama in Wasshington D.C.

The long news showed us not only the scenes from
Washington D.C, but also people's voices about the
new president.

The news reported the voice of Japanese people
about President Obama from various parts of Japan.
For example, some Japanese in Osaka were rejoiced by
this inauguration, as usual.--Osakans like America.
But then, we were shown citizens of Obama city
who were interviewd by the TV crew on streets of
Obama-City.

They were rejoiced and said they were very glad with
the inauguration of a new president in the United
States whose name is same with their hometown.
However, two citizens who were interviewd by the
TV crew, in front of the TV camera, said they hope
President Obama will give supports to the efforts
for the Japanese abducted by North Korea will be
returned to Japan.

（Click here to know about North Korean abduction of Japanese)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese

Obama-City was a place where some Japanese were
abducted by North Koreans in the 1970s. They could
come back to Japan in 2002 after they were forced
to waste their valuable years of life in the
prison-state as instructors of Japanese for North
Korean soldiers, or spies, while their abduction
was kept secret. --It was after 2002 North Korean
dictator Kim Jong-Il acknowledged their crime--
abduction of multiple Japanese from Japan--and
apologized to the then Japanese prime minster Koizumi
who visited North Korea. There are, however, many
more Japanese who were abducted in Japan by Koreans
and missed after they were forced to live in North
Korea as instructors of Japanese for North Korean
soldiers and spies.

Bush administration was sympathetic to the family
of those kidnapped japanese and president Bush
expressed his anger to North Korea. Moreover,
president Bush even invited a mother of such
abducted Japanese, YOKOTA Megumi, who had been
abducted by North Korean operators on a street in
Japan in 1978, when she had been 13 years old.
President Bush, however, betrayed Japan after this
touching event. Under the treacherous dipolpmacy of
Rice and Hill, who conceded North Korea and ignored
the Japanese concern, Bush administration changed
US diplomacy to extremely pro-North Korean one
to obtain North Korean compromise in nuclear issue.

Under such diplomatic circumstance, the Japanese
are deeply concerned Obama administrarion may concede
more to North Korea than Bush administration did
and are wondering what policy Obama administration
start with North Korea.

I am one of them.
As well as the citizens of Obama-City who are concerned
about the American attitude towards North Korea, regardless
of the pleasure new president of the US has the same name
with their town, I am deeply concerned president Obama
may take more pro-North Korean policy than Mr.Bush
who betrayed the Japanese mother waiting for her daughter
30 years in Japan.

Nori