Families of abductees have many doubts about the information Pyongyang provided on the fate of 10 Japanese the North says are dead or have never entered the country.

On Thursday, they gave Tokyo a list of 60 details they found suspicious.

The information was brought back by a fact-finding mission that held talks with North Korean officials Nov. 9-14 in Pyongyang. The mission also interviewed people and visited sites related to the abductees before returning to Tokyo on Nov. 15.

The list was given to Hiroshi Oguma, who is in charge of supporting abductees and their families within the Cabinet Office.

The list is partly about Yaeko Taguchi, one of the eight abductees who Pyongyang says are dead.

Saitama prefectural police have determined Taguchi was abducted to North Korea, based on evidence given by a former North Korean agent, Kim Hyon Hui. The agent was held responsible for the 1987 Korean Air Lines jetliner bombing.

Police have said Taguchi was in fact a woman who went by the name Lee Un Hae and taught the agent Japanese language and customs.

But North Korean officials told the fact-finding team that there is no such person called Lee Un Hae.

Another issue is that Pyongyang has denied testimony by a former wife of a 1970 Japan Air Lines hijacker that she and others of the hijacking group were involved in luring Keiko Arimoto, Toru Ishioka and Kaoru Matsuki to North Korea.

Also Thursday, a reason was given for why there were errors in the North Korean death certificates and other documents concerning the abductees.

The abductees were not officially on record as living in North Korea because Pyongyang wanted to keep their abduction secret. That's what supporters of the abductees' families said government officials quoted Pyongyang officials as saying.(IHT/Asahi: November 26,2004)