- Title: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: FREED JAPANESE HOSTAGES LEAVE HOSPITAL
- Date: 17th April 2004
- Summary: (W8) DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (APRIL 17, 2004)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. RELATIVES OF FREED JAPANESE HOSTAGES ARRIVING AT THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL 0.22 2. SLV RELATIVES WALKING TOWARDS WARD WHERE THE HOSTAGES ARE BEING KEPT (SEEN THROUGH WINDOW OF HOSPITAL) 0.35 (W8) DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (APRIL 18, 2004)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 3. WIDE OF OUTSIDE NIGHT VIEW OF THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL 0.43 4. VARIOUS OF SENIOR VICE FOREIGN MINISTER ICHIRO AISAWA ARRIVING AT THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL 1.00 5. SLV ICHIRO AISAWA ENTERING WARD WHERE FREED JAPANESE HOSTAGES ARE BEING KEPT (SSEN THROUGH WINDOW) 1.11 6. CLOSE OF CAMERAMAN 1.17 7. SLV SENIOR VICE FOREIGN MINISTER ICHIRO AISAWA, RELATIVES OF THE FREED JAPANESE HOSTAGES AND FREED JAPANESE HOSTAGES LEAVING THE WARD AS A GROUP (SEEN THROUGH WINDOW) 1.36 8. SLV ICHIRO AISAWA, RELATIVES OF THE FREED JAPANESE HOSTAGES AND FREED JAPANESE HOSTAGES LEAVING THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL IN DUBAI 2.03 9. VARIOUS OF ICHIRO AISAWA, RELATIVES OF THE FREED JAPANESE HOSTAGES AND FREED JAPANESE HOSTAGES LEAVING HOSPITAL BY CAR AND TRAVELLING TO AIRPORT 2.49 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
- Country: United Arab Emirates
- Reuters ID: LVA7GPQPJDKEXJ046S8ZD80HHPCL
- Story Text: The three freed Japanese hostages leave the American
hospital in Dubai.
The three released hostages left Dubai's American
hospital early on Sunday morning (April 18) escorted by
their relatives and Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ichiro
Aisawa.
Noriaki Imai, Soichiro Koriyama and Nahoko Takato were
taken to Dubai's American hospital to undergo stress tests
after their week-long ordeal in which the kidnappers
threatened to burn them alive.
Japan rejected the kidnappers' demands that Japan
withdraw its troops from U.S.-led forces in Iraq.
Takato has said she would like to carry on with her aid
work in Iraq and Koriyama, a freelance journalist, is
reported to have said he wants to stay in the country to
take pictures.
But Japanese authorities said it would be too dangerous
for them to return to Iraq, where a spate of kidnappings
has snared foreigners from at least a dozen countries this
month amid an upsurge in guerrilla attacks against the
U.S.-led occupation.
Two other Japanese hostages were released in the Iraqi
capital, Baghdad, on Saturday (April 17), witnesses said.
On April 14, the Japanese government said it was
trying to confirm media reports that freelance journalists
Jumpei Yasuda and Nobutaka Watanabe,a former member of the
Japanese military with ties to a civic group, had been
kidnapped near Baghdad.
A Reuters Television cameraman saw the two hostages
being handed over to a Japanese delegation at Baghdad's Um
al-Qura mosque on April 14.
More than 40 foreigners have been taken hostage in
Iraq. Most have been released. Both Sunni and Shi'ite
leaders have appealed for kidnappers not to harm foreign
civilians.
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