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...DIED. SHINSUKE HASHIDA, 61, veteran Japanese war correspondent, and his nephew KOTARO OGAWA, 33; after their car was attacked with a rocket-propelled grenade by unknown assailants; near Baghdad. Bodies believed to belong to Hashida and an Iraqi translator were found in the car; Ogawa escaped the vehicle but is thought to have been captured by the attackers and shot to death. The two were returning from a visit to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces camp in Samawah...
...others, Welfare Minister Chikahiko Koizumi and Education Minister Kunihiko Hashida of Tojo's Pearl Harbor Cabinet (and four unlisted officials) succeeded in killing themselves. Admiral Shigetaro Shimada told a nervous U.S. officer: "Be quiet-I don't suicide." Many surrendered voluntarily, either to U.S. officers or Japanese police. At week's end only ten were still at large...
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