Japan to Keep Troops in Iraq Despite Hostage-Taking
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Japan's prime minister insisted Wednesday  that Japan would not withdraw its troops from Iraq despite a  threat by a militant group to behead a Japanese hostage unless  Tokyo pulled them out.
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A body resembling a Japanese hostage has been found in Iraq and is being shipped to Qatar for identification, Japanese officials said on Saturday, after Tokyo refused a demand by his captors to pull out its troops.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi threatened to behead a Japanese hostage in Iraq if Tokyo did not withdraw its troops, but Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Japan&#39;s contingent would stay put.
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Japanâs defence chief said today that Japanese troops should remain in Iraq until the country is properly rehabilitated, possibly until late 2005.
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Japan will keep its troops in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said a day after insurgents fired explosives into a dining tent at a US Army base in the northern city of Mosul.
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TOKYO Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (joon-ee-chee-roh koh-ee-zoo-mee) is refusing to meet kidnappers&#39; demands for Japanese troops to withdraw from Iraq.
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Japan's prime minister, a staunch U.S. ally in Iraq, refused on Wednesday to withdraw Japan's troops from the country, taking a tough stance in the face of demands by militants threatening to behead a Japanese hostage unless the soldiers leave.
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TOKYO: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appeared on Monday to have won public backing for his refusal to pull Japanese troops out of Iraq despite the weekend beheading of a Japanese hostage.
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Japanâs Cabinet today approved a plan to keep Japanese troops in Iraq for another year. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a vocal supporter of the US-led invasion of Iraq, had argued the dispatch was needed
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JAPAN&#39;S troop deployment in Iraq beyond December is at risk as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi braces for a wave of public anger over the nightmare ending to the country&#39;s second Baghdad hostage crisis.
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Japan has said it will keep its troops in Iraq, despite the beheading of a Japanese hostage by Islamic militants. Officials had earlier confirmed that a body found in Baghdad yesterday was that of Shosei Koda
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The US State Department Wednesday lauded Japan&#39;s decision to stay in Iraq despite threats a kidnapped Japanese citizen will be killed unless it withdraws.
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Japan's prime minister rejects Iraqi militants' demands for a troop pullout after a Japanese man is seized.
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A body resembling a Japanese hostage has been found in Iraq and will be flown to Kuwait or Qatar for identification, officials said on Saturday, after Tokyo refused a demand by his captors to pull out its troops.
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The Japanese cabinet has approved a proposal to keep the country's troops in Iraq for another year.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has called for the release of of a Japanese tourist taken hostage in Iraq but says Japan will not &quot;bend to terror.
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Shocked by the murder of a kidnapped Japanese hostage in Iraq, the Japanese government Sunday denounced the slaying but vowed to keep its forces there.