Body Resembling Japanese Hostage Found in Iraq
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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.
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A video posted Tuesday on a militant Islamic Web site in the name of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s group showed what it claimed was a Japanese captive and threatened to behead him within
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BAGHDAD - The decapitated body of 24-year-old Japanese backpacker Shosei Koda was left discarded in a field near what is known as a stronghold of anti-American insurgent forces in central Baghdad Saturday night, according to local police.
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There are reports that a body reportedly found in Iraq may belong to a young Japanese hostage.
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Japan says it is checking reports that the body of an Asian man has been found in northern Iraq, following expiration of an execution deadline for a Japanese national set by militants demanding the withdrawal of all Japanese troops in Iraq.
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A body found at the US Military base that was attacked in Iraq this week was wearing an Iraqi military uniform when it was recovered at the scene.
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Video posted Tuesday on a militant Islamic Web site showed what it claimed was a Japanese captive kidnapped by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group and threatened to behead him within 48 hours unless Japan pulls its troops from Iraq.
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Japan has confirmed that the headless body found in Baghdad on Saturday is of the Japanese being held captive in Iraq. An armed group in Iraq had on Tuesday threatened to behead Shosei Koda, 24, within 48-hours unless Japan pulled its troops out of Iraq.
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Japan was checking a media report on  Friday that an Asian body had been found in Iraq after a  deadline expired for the beheading of a Japanese youth whose  captors had demanded that Tokyo withdraw its troops.
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BAGHDAD: A body found in Iraq cannot be confirmed as that of a young Japanese man taken hostage and the corpse has been sent to Qatar for identification, Japan&#39;s Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa said yesterday.
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October 29, 2004 -- BAGHDAD, Iraq - The body of an Asian man â-ith gunshot wounds to the head and body â - reportedly found in Tikrit last night after the deadline passed for Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, who had been shown in a video aired early
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Japan refused to give up hope that a  Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq was still alive on Friday  after the passing of a deadline set by his captors to behead  him unless Tokyo withdrew its troops.
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Japanese officials say a decapitated body found in Baghdad wrapped in an American flag is that of a Japanese man kidnapped by Islamic militants.
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TOKYO - The Japanese government was trying to confirm Friday if a body believed to be of an Asian person reportedly found in northern Iraq is that of a Japanese traveler held hostage in Iraq after the kidnappers&#39; 48-hour deadline for beheading him
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - The body of an Asian man found in Iraq does not resemble a Japanese hostage and was shot dead two days ago, well before a deadline to execute the young traveller expired, forensic experts said.
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Japan has sent two diplomats to a forensic medical facility in Iraq to see if a head and body found in Baghdad was that of a Japanese man taken hostage.
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A body found in Iraq resembles a Japanese civilian taken hostage and threatened with execution, but the Japanese government has not yet positively identified it, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday.