Algeria hostage crisis

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Takeshi Endo, chief of Japanese engineering firm JGC Corp.'s public and investor relations department, looks emotional as he answers reporters' questions at the JGC head office in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Jan. 24, 2013. Japan announced the same day it has confirmed the death of the last Japanese to have been unaccounted for in the recent Algeria hostage crisis, bringing the total number of Japanese fatalities in the incident to 10, all of whom worked for the company.

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