Japan shocked, perplexed after 24-year-old Japanese traveler taken ...
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Shosei Koda did not go to Iraq to distribute aid, reconstruct the country or strike it rich in the oil business. He was not connected with Japan&#39;s government or its armed forces.
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Keith Campbell and his Japanese-born wife spent his 47th birthday half a world apart because of an immigration dispute. Critics say the case illustrates how making mistakes in getting visas and permanent U.S. residency can lead to life-changing consequences for families.
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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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NORTH Koreaâs solemn return of the remains of a 13-year-old Japanese girl they kidnapped decades ago have proved to be a cruel trick, a furious Japan said yesterday.
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Condemnations rang out from several corners in Japan today after a 38-year-old U.S. Marine was accused of raping a 14-year-old local girl in Okinawa. Police also released more details of the alleged crime, saying the Marine had offered to take the girl home on his motorcycle.
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Japan's justice minister said "a friend of a friend ... is a member of al Qaeda" and had entered the country several times, using various passports, an officer of the Justice Ministry told CNN.
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A JAPANESE hostage threatened with execution in Iraq was an English language student in New Zealand just weeks ago and was warned against travel to the war torn country, local media reported today.
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The number of Japanese who have lived 100 years or more surged to a record-high 23,038 in 2004 in the world&#39;s longest-living country, the government said Tuesday.
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TOKYO - A 77-year-old Japanese woman mistakenly gave away a kimono containing $18,700 she had sewn into the garment, but the cash was returned about a month later, a police spokesman said Friday.
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TOKYO - Shosei Koda was a student learning English in New Zealand before entering Iraq, but his self-searching trip to one of the most dangerous places in the world without proper preparation ended in tragedy as the Japanese government confirmed Sunday
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A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy who was rescued from a crushed car suffers intense fear and asks about his mother who was buried today, a week after a major earthquake struck Japan, doctors said.
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A Japanese citizen taken hostage in Iraq has been executed, the Kyodo news agency reported Saturday. Shosei Koda, 24, was kidnapped last week, by the group linked to al-Qaida-affiliated militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Koizumi's visits to Japan's controversial war shrine leave his successor with a conundrum
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TOKYO  For a country that shut out foreigners for hundreds of years, Japan has proved strangely attractive for problem migrants of late.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Helicopters lifted people to  safety and soldiers handed out food and water as more tremors  jolted northern Japan Monday, arousing concerns about the  possibility of another powerful earthquake after the country's  deadliest in a decade killed at least 24 people.
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The number of Japanese men and women who have lived 100 years or more surged this year to a record 23,038. The figure released by the Health Ministry reflects longer life spans in a rapidly greying nation, where
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CHIRAN, Japan -- These are the dusky days of old age that kamikaze pilots like Shigeyoshi Hamazono were not supposed to see.