Ms. Eiko Kawasaki is the chairwoman of Action for Korea United-Japan and founder of KOREA OF ALL. She was repatriated to North Korea in 1960 at the age of 17 and lived in North Korea for 43 years. She defected from North Korea in 2003. In 2019, she held the 60th anniversary of the repatriation of 93,000 Korean Japanese. Last year, she initiated the renewal project of “Botonamu (willow trees) Street” in Niigata City in Japan, to advocate for human rights in North Korea. In 2018, she filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court against the North Korean government, demanding compensation of 500 million yen for the victims. She published The Story of People Returning to North Korea from Japan in Korea in 2021, and it is forthcoming in the U.S.