North Korea will reopen an investigation into the fate of Japanese nationals it abducted decades ago, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe says.
Mr Abe announced the move after days of talks between officials in Sweden.
Japan says North Korea abducted several of its citizens in the 1970s and 1980s to train spies - including learning the Japanese language and behaviour.
Pyongyang has returned five of the abductees and says the rest are dead - but Japan does not believe this.
"As a result of the Japan-North Korea talks, the North Korean side promised... that it will make a comprehensive and overall investigation into all the Japanese, including abduction victims and missing people whose possibility of being abducted cannot be ruled out," Mr Abe told a news conference.
"In keeping with the promise, it will set up a special commission for the investigation."
North Korea has admitted kidnapping 13 Japanese nationals. It allowed five to return to Japan in 2002 and later released their children, but says the other eight died.
The most high profile of these eight is Megumi Yokota, who was kidnapped by North Korean agents on her way home from school in 1977, when she was 13.
North Korea says she married a South Korean abductee and had a daughter before killing herself in 1994.
North Korea returned what it said were her remains in 2004 but DNA tests subsequently disputed that claim.
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