Japan denounces Iraq hostage death
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As Tokyo Correspondent Mark Simkin reports, the remains of Shosei Koda were found in Baghdad. &quot;The decapitated body was wrapped in an American flag.
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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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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 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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A decapitated body found in Iraq was identified Sunday as a Japanese backpacker taken hostage by Islamic militants, but Tokyo insisted it would not cut short its dispatch of troops there and vowed to combat terrorism.
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed on Sunday that Japanese troops would continue their domestically unpopular mission in Iraq after Islamic militants demanding a pullout killed a 24-year-old Japanese tourist.
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A militant group in Iraq has claimed it is holding a Japanese citizen hostage and gave Tokyo 48 hours to withdraw troops from the country.
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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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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 group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said it would behead a member of Japan&#39;s forces it had captured in Iraq if the Japanese government did not withdraw its forces from the country within 48 hours.
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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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A Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman admits that a body found in Iraq resembles that of a Japanese civilian taken hostage by militants, but the government has not yet positively confirmed that.
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Japan today refused to withdraw its troops from Iraq despite demands by Iraqi militants who have taken a Japanese civilian hostage and threatened to behead him unless the soldiers left.
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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. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rejected the demand.
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Japan Wednesday refused to withdraw its forces from Iraq despite the threat by Islamic militants to execute a Japanese hostage if the troops remain.
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Japan won&#39;t yield to terrorism or withdraw its troops from Iraq, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said, in response to reports an Iraqi group kidnapped a Japanese man.