After a whirlwind day of the body being declared to
not be of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, then being announced they inspected the wrong body, the Japanese government has now said the body is that of Shosei Koda.
Yahoo/AP
A decapitated body wrapped in an American flag and found in an insurgent-controlled section of Baghdad was that of a Japanese man kidnapped by Islamic militants, a Japanese official said Sunday.
Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said in Tokyo that the government confirmed that the body found Saturday was that of Shosei Koda, 24.
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