Body resembling Japanese captive found
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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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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. TOKYO, Japan -- Japan said Saturday a body resembling that of a 24-year-old Japanese hostage
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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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TOKYO  - A body found in Iraq resembles a Japanese civilian taken hostage by Islamic militants and threatened with death, but the government has not yet positively identified it, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday.
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Police searching for a gunman who killed two people at a gym in western Japan said Saturday they had found a man's body and were investigating whether he was behind the deaths.
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The Japanese government confirmed a headless corpse found near Baghdad is that of national Shosei Koda, 24, the third Japanese death in Iraq since Self-Defense troops were sent to the Middle Eastern country in January.
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Rangers at Yosemite National Park have found the bodies of two Japanese climbers on El Capitan. The pair had been stranded on the rock formation after being caught in an early winter storm.
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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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For years, Japan saw kidnapping victim Megumi Yokota only as an innocent child, a fresh-faced junior high badminton player in school uniform, black hair framing her cheeks. Now for the first time, photographs are on display of Yokota's life after her 1977 abduction by North Korean spies, as she grew from a teenager into an adult imprisoned behind the reclusive regime's wall of secrecy.
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The body of a man found by the US military in Iraq is not likely to be that of 24-year-old Japanese national Shosei Koda, who was kidnapped in the country, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hatsuhisa Takashima said.
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The body of an American hostage in  Iraq, whose beheading was shown on a video on the Internet, has  been recovered and identified, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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CAIRO -- Video posted yesterday on a militant Islamic website 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 was checking a media report on  Friday that an Asian body had been found in Iraq after the  expiry of a deadline set for the beheading of a Japanese youth  whose captors had demanded that Tokyo withdraw its troops.
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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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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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severed head of a man found in Baghdad were of Koda. Newspapers reported his killing. Japan on October 23, killing at least 36 people and forcing 100,000 from their homes.
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Human remains North Korea gave to Japan to prove a woman it kidnapped was dead are not hers, tests show.