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, ...

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 ...

KUN0020 4 GEN 0388 KUWAIT /KUNA-NHL3 PPL-JAPAN-IRAQ Ansar Al-Sunnah says Japanese man has died from injuries after shooting (With Photo) TOKYO, May 28 (KUNA) -- Akihiko Saito, a Japanese security ...

TOKYO --Toyota Motor Corp. will assemble hybrid vehicles in the United States, Akihiko Saito, executive vice president in charge of production, has confirmed. The company had said it was considering U ...

A Japanese hostage held in Iraq died from wounds he received after opening fire on his captors who had not intended to kill him, the militant Sunni group which kidnapped him said in an Internet ...

BAGHDAD, May 28 -- An insurgent group said in an Internet posting Saturday that it had killed a Japanese hostage captured after his convoy was attacked near the western city of Hit on May 8. A video ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Islamic militant group Ansar al Sunna said on its website Monday that it had abducted a Japanese national who worked at a U.S. base in Iraq. A British security firm ...

The government scrambled Tuesday to find information on the kidnapping of a 44-year-old Japanese security specialist after Iraqi militants claimed to have captured him in an ambush in western Iraq.

A Japanese security guard kidnapped by militants in Iraq may have died from injuries he suffered in the attack on the convoy he was protecting, according to the British company he worked for. "An ...