Japan Says Body Found Not Iraq Hostage
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda, center, is surrounded by reporters as he speaks on a body found in Iraq at the prime minister&#39;s official residence in Tokyo Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004.
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TOKYO - There are conflicting reports about whether a Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq last week has been killed by his captors.
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A body resembling a Japanese captive has been found in Iraq and is being shipped to Qatar for identification, Japanese officials have said.
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TOKYO -- A Japanese government official said a body found in Iraq resembles a Japanese civilian taken hostage by militants. But he said the man&#39;s remains haven&#39;t been positively identified yet.
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Japan&#39;s government on Sunday said it is now certain that a 24-year-old Japanese backpacker taken hostage in Iraq has been killed.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Ministry has dismissed a claim by Iraqi militants who kidnapped and killed a Japanese hostage that Tokyo offered a ransom for his release.
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The Japanese government says it is undeterred in its fight against terrorism, following the killing of a Japanese hostage in Iraq.
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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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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday Japanese troops would not pull out of Iraq, rejecting a demand by Islamic militants claiming to have taken a Japanese hostage.
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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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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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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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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has announced that Japan will not recall soldiers stationed in Iraq because an Iraqi group has threatened to kill a Japanese hostage.
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Human remains North Korea gave to Japan to prove a woman it kidnapped was dead are not hers, tests show.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday vehemently condemned the beheading of a young Japanese backpacker by Muslim extremists in Iraq while vowing that Japan would remain
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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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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.