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Japanese journalist freed after detention by Iraqi police

BAGHDAD, Iran - Moriaki Endo, a Japanese freelance journalist missing since April 2, tells of his ordeal after arriving at a Baghdad hotel late April 11. Endo said Iraqi authorities had apprehended and detained him for alleged espionage.

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1970 JAL hijackers in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - The file photo taken in Pyongyang on Sept. 5, 2004 shows Japanese leftist radicals who hijacked a Japan Airlines plane to the North Korean capital in 1970. From left, Kimihiro Uomoto, Takahiro Konishi, Shiro Akagi and Moriaki Wakabayashi. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Red Army members in N. Korea intend to return home

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Former members of the Red Army Faction who hijacked a Japan Airlines jet to North Korea in 1970 -- (from L to R) Moriaki Wakabayashi, 55, Takahiro Konishi, 57, Shiro Akagi, 54 and Kimihiro Abe, 54 -- show travel documents in Pyongyang on July 9 to apply for return to Japan. They entrusted the documents to Yukio Yamanaka, who heads their Japanese support group.

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Japanese journalist freed after detention by Iraqi police

BAGHDAD, Iran - Moriaki Endo, a Japanese freelance journalist missing since April 2, tells of his ordeal after arriving at a Baghdad hotel late April 11. Endo said Iraqi authorities had apprehended and detained him for alleged espionage. (Kyodo)