Body found in Iraq cannot be confirmed as Japanese hostage: diplomat
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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's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa said.
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The deadline set by Islamic militants for the beheading of a Japanese hostage unless their demands were met has passed with no news of the man&#39;s fate.
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The Japanese government is checking  whether a body found by the U.S. military between Tikrit and  Baghdad in Iraq is that of a Japanese hostage, an aide to  Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said early on  Saturday.
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Japan hasn&#39;t confirmed a news report that a body, believed to be that of an Asian male, was found in Iraq, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters in Tokyo.
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A headless body found Saturday in Baghdad has been confirmed as the kidnapped Japanese, Shosei Koda, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Sunday.
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Japan's government was still in the dark  about a Japanese held hostage in Iraq on Thursday, less than 24  hours before a deadline set by his captors, who have threatened  to behead the young man unless Japan withdraws its troops.
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The 48-hour deadline for the execution of a Japanese hostage being held in Iraq, has passed, as the Koyodo newsagency reports that a body has been found in Tikrit.
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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 Japanese hostage has been beheaded in Iraq, Japanese officials said on Sunday, but Tokyo vowed it would keep its troops in the country on their reconstruction mission.
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[World News]: Tokyo, Oct.31 : The Japanese government on Sunday confirmed that a decapitated body found in Iraq is that of a Japanese hostage taken hostage by Islamic militants earlier this week.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura announces that Japanese govenment has confirmed that a depapitated body found in Iraq is that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda during an emergency news conference in Tokyo Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004.
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A JAPANESE hostage abducted in Iraq has been killed, the Kyodo news agency reported last night. A body found near the town of Tikrit was identified as that of Shosei Koda, a 24-year-old
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The headless body of an Asian, which the police suspect could be that of a Japanese seized in Iraq, has been found in Baghdad. An armed group in Iraq had on Tuesday threatened to behead the Japanese backpacker
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THE Turkish embassy in Baghdad was investigating a television report that two Turkish hostages had been killed in Iraq, but no confirmation was available so far, a senior Turkish diplomat said today.
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A body resembling a Japanese hostage has  been found in Iraq and is being shipped to Qatar for  identification, Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hatsuhisa  Takashima told a news conference early on Saturday.
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A body inspected Saturday to determined whether it is that of the Japanese hostage was not the one found early, a senior Japanese official said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Japanese leaders on Sunday insisted they would not cut short their troopsâ deployment in Iraq despite the discovery of the body of a Japanese backpacker killed by Islamic militants.