Japan confirms hostage killed, troops to stay
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Iraqi officials said the head and body was found wrapped in a US flag.
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Japan says it has no plans to withdraw its troops, despite the murder of a Japanese hostage. (File photo) (Reuters)

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http://www.abc.net.au/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1231585.htm

Sunday, October 31, 2004. 5:04pm (AEDT)

Japan confirms hostage killed, troops to stay

Japan has confirmed that the headless body of a man found in Baghdad was that of a Japanese hostage whose captors had threatened to kill him if Japan did not pull out its troops.

Japan said it would keep its troops in Iraq, where they are carrying out humanitarian work, despite the killing.

Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al Zarqawi's militant group said in an Internet video on Wednesday it would behead 24-year-old Shosei Koda within 48 hours if Japan did not withdraw its troops from Iraq.

"Unfortunately, we have just confirmed that the body is that of Shosei Koda," Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura told a news conference.

"We deeply regret that he has become a victim of terrorism. We express our deep condolences to his family."

Japan has around 550 troops in southern Iraq involved in humanitarian and reconstruction work, such as providing water supply.

"We intend to continue as before with our humanitarian aid work," top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda told journalists shortly after a headless body found in Baghdad was confirmed as that of Mr Koda.

The decapitated body was found near Haifa Street in a notorious area in the centre of the capital on Saturday, said colonel Adnan Abdul Rahman, a spokesman for the Iraqi interior ministry.

Iraqi officials said the head and body was found wrapped in a US flag.

The hands and feet of the corpse had been tied and there were two bullet wounds, a police officer said.

A news agency pool video obtained in Baghdad showed the corpse in a white, blood-soaked shirt and the severed head of a Japanese-looking man with a thin beard.

Someone can then be seen lifting the head up by its long black hair and holding it up to the camera.

The hostage crisis poses a challenge for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who sent troops to Iraq on a non-combat mission despite opposition from a majority of the Japanese public.

Analysts have said the fallout could be limited because many ordinary Japanese have blamed Mr Koda for putting himself at risk despite warnings from the Government not to travel to Iraq.

Confusion had surrounded Mr Koda's fate.

A beheaded body found in Iraq on Friday was initially thought to be that of Mr Koda, but it was later identified as an Iraqi man. Another corpse described as Asian-looking also turned out not to be Mr Koda's.

At least 25 foreigners from a dozen countries are thought to be in the hands of kidnappers trying to drive US-led forces and foreign workers from Iraq.

Scores of foreigners have been abducted since April.

Many have been freed but more than 35 have been killed, several of them beheaded.

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