(回答先: フィッシャー出国の目処が立つまで 投稿者 ネオファイト 日時 2005 年 3 月 23 日 20:50:40)

Japan 'set to free' Bobby Fischer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4374811.stm

Japan has decided to allow former world chess champion Bobby Fischer to travel to Iceland, despite US requests for his extradition, Japanese media say.
Japan's justice ministry made the decision after being shown documents proving Mr Fischer had been granted Icelandic citizenship, reports said.

The American has already been detained for eight months near Tokyo.

He is wanted in the US for breaking international sanctions by playing a match in Yugoslavia in 1992.

Mr Fischer, 62, was granted Icelandic citizenship after a vote in the country's parliament on Monday.

The former champion has many supporters in Iceland, after playing a world championship match there in 1972 at the height of the Cold War, beating the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky.

"Mr Fischer is a true Icelander now," Iceland's ambassador to Japan, Thordur Oskarsson, told Reuters news agency.

Iceland fond of Fischer

Japan's Justice Minister Chieko Noono said on Tuesday that it would be "legally possible" to send Mr Fischer to Iceland if he was confirmed as an Icelandic citizen.

John Bosnitch, an associate of Mr Fischer in Japan, said he hoped he might be able to leave the country as soon as Thursday.

The chess player's lawyer, Masako Suzuki, said: "We strongly demand that Mr Fischer's prompt release and departure from the country at his own expense be approved, and that he be allowed to leave Japan."

The US said it was disappointed at the move. "Mr Fischer is a fugitive from justice," said a US state department spokesman.

Scuffle with guards

The reclusive Mr Fischer had lived undetected in Japan for a number of years with his fiancee, Miyoko Watai, a former Japanese chess champion.

He was arrested when he tried to leave Japan for the Philippines last July.

His supporters say he has been under heavy stress in jail. He was held for four days in solitary confinement earlier this month after scuffling with guards in an argument over a boiled egg.

Mr Fischer's supporters say the US deportation order is politically motivated.

The American exile angered many of his fellow countrymen when he went on Philippine radio on 11 September 2001, applauding the attacks on the US on that day and launching into an anti-Semitic diatribe.

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