Kidnapped Japanese People - Japanese People Taken Hostage, Kidnapped Japanese Children, North Korean Abductions of Japanese, Sam Brownback (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 104. Not illustrated. Chapters: Japanese People Taken Hostage, Kidnapped Japanese Children, North Korean Abductions of Japanese, Sam Brownback, Shinz Abe, Glico Morinaga Case, Charles Robert Jenkins, Fusako Sano, Megumi Yokota, Abduction: the Megumi Yokota Story, Shosei Koda, Eriko Yamatani, Yaeko Taguchi, Hitomi Soga, Takeo Hiranuma, Kyoko Nakayama, Yoshiko Sakurai, Sin Gwang-Su, Dakkan, Akihiko Saito, Katsuei Hirasawa, Shingo Nishimura, Jin Matsubara, Teruaki Masumoto, Keiji Furuya. Excerpt: Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is the senior United States Senator from the U.S. state of Kansas and former GOP candidate in the Republican primaries for the 2008 presidential election. He has announced that he will not seek re-election to the Senate in 2010 and has filed papers to run for Governor of Kansas in the 2010 election. Brownback is widely considered the front-runner for the Republican nomination and leads by large margins in general election polling to date. Sam Brownback was born in Garnett, Kansas to Nancy and Robert Brownback. He was raised in a farming family in Parker, Kansas; his ancestors settled in Kansas after leaving Pennsylvania following the Civil War. Brownback was state president of National FFA Organization, and was one of its national vice presidents from 1976 to 1977. While at Kansas State University, he was elected student body president and was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho. He received his J.D. from the University of Kansas in 1982. After college, Brownback spent approximately a year working as a broadcaster; he hosted a weekly half-hour show. He is married to the former Mary Stauffer, whose family owned and sold a successful media company in 1995. They have five children, including an adopted son and daughter. One of his daughters, Jenna, was adopted from China when she was two years old...