Japan seeks life for alleged killer of British hostess Blackman
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Japanese prosecutors have sought a maximum life in prison sentence for the alleged killer of British bar hostess Lucie Blackman, news reports said.
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A body that looks like that of a Japanese hostage threatened with execution by Islamic militants in Iraq has been found, a Japanese foreign ministry spokesman said.
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British police seeking the killer of a 22-year-old Frenchwoman said they had been given "key information" in the case.
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A website set up to catch the Japanese man suspected of murdering a Warwickshire teacher receives 7,000 hits.
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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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Japan will ask North Korea to relaunch probes into the fate of Japanese citizens it abducted after false evidence presented earlier led to calls for sanctions against the communist state, reports said.
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Japan's government said it was trying to confirm news reports that the Islamic militant group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi had taken a Japanese citizen hostage in Iraq and threatened to behead him.
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Peru's ambassador to Japan expressed confidence Saturday that Tokyo will extradite former President Alberto Fujimori to face murder and embezzlement charges. Fujimori said Lima's new request for custody shows he is a victim of "political persecution."
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A Japanese court has taken the rare step of demanding punishment for lawyers of the doomsday cult guru behind the 1995 subway attack, blaming them for delays in the emotionally charged trial.
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A fresh appeal to track down the killer of Nairn bank manager Alistair Wilson is launched a week after his murder.
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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 will set up a task force to consider allowing a reigning empress, an official said Monday - the government's first review of a post-World War II law that limits imperial succession to men.
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The parents of a British woman killed in Japan while working as an English teacher there have received a message from the father of a man being hunted by police, according to a newspaper report Sunday.
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Japanese leaders struggled on Thursday to make contact with Islamic militants in Iraq who took a Japanese traveler hostage as the 48-hour deadline approached for the young man's threatened beheading. Tokyo stood firm in its refusal to meet the kidnappers' demand to withdraw troops from Iraq.
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People who were nearby when a nightclub doorman was murdered in his bed are urged by police to come forward.
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Conservatives keen to keep women from  ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne are hoping this week will  bring the answer to their prayers: the birth of Japan's first  imperial male heir in more than four decades.
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Japanese officials tried Thursday to contact the Iraqi militants holding a Japanese hostage, as the 48-hour deadline for his threatened execution approached.