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Ken Ishikawa, who is 54, in Otaru, a city an hour's drive west of Sapporo. Ken Ishikawa sitting in his living room in Otaru, surrounded by framed photos of his sister wearing the clothes and hairstyle of the 1970's, he said that the family believed she had been kidnapped, perhaps even taken to North Korea. It was only 26 years later, in 2004, that the family caem to learn the truth. Ken Ishikawa, 54, whose older sister, Chikako, who had left Otaru to teach music at an elementary school in Tokyo, vanished in 1978. Sitting in his living room in Otaru, surrounded by framed photos of his sister wearing the clothes and hairstyle of the 1970's, Mr. Ishikawa said the family believed she had been kidnapped, perhaps even taken to North Korea. However the truth is that a school security guard, with a grudge against the teachers, choked his sister to death one afternoon and buried her nude body in a hole under his living room.