Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The brother of a Japanese hostage in Iraq has identified his body from a videotape released by Iraqi militants, ending a three-week ...

The younger brother of a Japanese security worker taken captive in Iraq said on Saturday that a dead body shown in Internet footage posted by an Islamic militant group was of his brother. The group, ...

Prague, 28 May 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Japan says it is trying to confirm if a body shown in a video by a militant group in Iraq is that of a Japanese hostage in Iraq. The undated video, posted on the ...

The fate of a Japanese man missing in Iraq is still unknown, officials in Tokyo said on Thursday, two days after a militant group claimed to have captured him, but his employer said he may have died ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Japanese man, believed to have been taken captive by an Islamic militant group in Iraq during an ambush on Sunday, may have been ...

TOKYO - Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said on Friday he would go on Arab television to appeal for the safety of a Japanese security employee wounded in an ambush in Iraq amid ...

The younger brother of a Japanese security worker taken captive in Iraq said on Saturday that a dead body shown in Internet footage posted by an Islamic militant group was of his brother. The group, ...

After it was learned that Akihiko Saito, a Japanese national working for a British security company in Iraq, was captured by a militant group during an ambush, the media seemed so stunned by the ...

A Japanese man has confirmed that his older brother was the dead man pictured on an Iraqi militant group's website. The group behind the website, Ansar al-Sunna, had claimed to be holding security ...

The brother of a Japanese kidnap victim who disappeared in Iraq this month has confirmed the man's death, from pictures of a bloodied corpse displayed on an Internet site used by Islamic militants.

Yoshinori Ohno, the defence minister, said there had been no change in public safety in Samawa, the southern Iraqi city where about 600 Japanese troops are providing humanitarian help. Security in ...