Japan Says Hostage&#39;s Body Found in Iraq Is Koda
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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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By Natalie Obiko Pearson, Associated Press, 10/30/2004 01:52. TOKYO  A body resembling a Japanese hostage held by Islamic militants has been found in Iraq, the government announced Saturday, and officials
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Tikrit, Iraq -- Iraqi officials say a body found near Tikrit is not that of a Japanese hostage. Initial reports that a bullet riddled Asian body had been found had upset Japan.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday he won't withdraw troops from Iraq despite information a Japanese man has been taken hostage there, Kyodo News reported.
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Japan says it is checking reports that the body of an Asian man has been found in northern Iraq, following expiration of an execution deadline for a Japanese national set by militants demanding the withdrawal of all Japanese troops in Iraq.
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Japan was checking a media report on  Friday that an Asian body had been found in Iraq after a  deadline expired for the beheading of a Japanese youth whose  captors had demanded that Tokyo withdraw its troops.
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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's government or its armed forces.
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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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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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BAGHDAD - The decapitated body of what appears to be a young Asian male was found Saturday in Baghdad, prompting Japan to check if the body was that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda.
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An armed group in Iraq has taken a Japanese traveler hostage and threatened to kill him unless Tokyo withdraws its Self-Defense Forces troops from the country within 48 hours, government officials said in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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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.
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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.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Japanese leaders on Sunday insisted they would not cut short their troopsâ deployment in Iraq despite the discovery of the body of a Japanese backpacker killed by Islamic militants.
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A body found in Iraq first thought to be that of 24-year-old Japanese hostage Shosei Koda is now likely to be someone else, according to Japanese officials.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi showed the beheading of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda in Iraq while he was lying on top of a US flag in an Internet video posted on Tuesday.
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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.