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The Slaying of Ito Kazuya: Japan in Afghanistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Michael Penn
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On the morning of August 26, 2008, aid worker Ito Kazuya arrived at work as usual. Four armed men suddenly appeared and abducted him. Local people witnessed the abduction, and a force of policemen and villagers gave chase into the mountains above north of the village of Bodyalai near Dara-e-Noor, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The result was a tragedy: Ito was shot three times in the leg and once in the left thigh. On the morning following the abduction, his body was found by the local people: Ito had bled to death.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 9 , September 2008 , e4
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