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JAPAN
Jul 29, 2016
Missing Bangladeshi helped extremists enter Japan en route to Syria
A Bangladeshi who was a former associate professor at a Japanese university is suspected of helping two extremists travel to Turkey via Japan last year, it was learned Friday.
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2016
Bangladesh delays closing bid on huge Japan ODA project over security concerns
The Bangladeshi government has postponed the closing bid for a large-scale project funded by Japan's official development assistance in the wake of the terrorist attack on a restaurant in Dhaka earlier this month that left 20 hostages, including seven Japanese, dead, sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 21, 2016
Bangladeshi who taught at Ritsumeikan among 10 suspects wanted by police over Dhaka attack: sources
Mohammad Saifullah Ozaki, who was born in Bangladesh, taught at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto Prefecture, but has been missing since he left Japan last year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jul 19, 2016
Nagoya professor distraught by Dhaka massacre, says killings go against Islam
Rahman M. Khondaker, a professor at Nagoya's Nanzan University, was shocked by the July 1 massacre of diners at a restaurant in Dhaka.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 18, 2016
Dhaka police nab four who rented property on sly to cafe attackers
Police in Dhaka on Saturday arrested three people and another on Sunday, including a university professor, for failing to register information about tenants renting property who later attacked a cafe in the city, killing 20 people.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 16, 2016
Terrorism and sexual assault cast shadow over Japanese travelers
Surely if a prize were to be awarded for the week's most controversial article, it would go to Shukan Shincho's piece titled "If you're traveling abroad, here is a phrase from the Quran you should memorize."
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2016
Sole Japanese survivor of Dhaka attack says he hid in cafe's garden
The 46-year-old, who is recovering in a Tokyo hospital from a gunshot wound, reportedly ran from the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe as the shooting started.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 8, 2016
Anatomy of the Dhaka attack
Bangladesh today is fighting for its soul. The U.S., India and other states ought to significantly ramp up assistance to Dhaka.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 8, 2016
The rise of Islamic extremism in Bangladesh
The Dhaka attack has shown that even Bangladeshis who are highly educated are now being drawn toward Wahhabi ideology.
JAPAN
Jul 8, 2016
Gunshot wounds killed at least 4 of 7 Japanese victims of Dhaka terrorist attack
At least four of the seven Japanese slain in the recent terrorist attack in Bangladesh died of gunshot wounds, investigative sources said Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 7, 2016
Japan plans extra spending on anti-terrorism measures in wake of Bangladesh attack
The government will spend hundreds of billions of yen on anti-terrorism and safety measures as part of an extra stimulus budget in the wake of the attack by Islamist militants in Bangladesh that killed seven Japanese, government sources said.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2016
Bangladeshi cafe employee tells of carnage, says Japanese murdered almost immediately
A Bangladeshi employee at the Dhaka cafe where 20 customers, including seven Japanese, were ruthlessly slain has said the Japanese were killed almost immediately.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 7, 2016
Dhaka cafe carnage just taste of what's to come till caliphate rules world: Islamic State video
Islamic State has warned of repeated attacks in Bangladesh and beyond until rule by sharia, Islamic law, is established, saying in a video last week's killing of 20 people in a Dhaka cafe was merely a glimpse of what is to come.
WORLD
Jul 7, 2016
Dhaka chef killed by police storming hostage standoff now believed in league with terrorists
A pizza chef killed during a militant attack on a cafe where he worked in Bangladesh's capital city last week was probably in league with the assailants, police said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2016
Japanese killed in Dhaka terrorist massacre put up little resistance, autopsies indicate
The bodies of seven Japanese killed in a terrorist attack in Bangladesh had few scars, suggesting the victims had little time to resist before being fatally wounded, according to police autopsies conducted on the victims' bodies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 6, 2016
Bodies of nine Italians slain in Dhaka terrorist massacre brought to Rome
The bodies of nine Italians killed by Islamist militants who stormed an upmarket restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital last week were brought to Rome in a military plane on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 6, 2016
Dhaka police criticized for not heeding online terrorist attack threat, may have mistakenly killed hostage
Bangladeshi police said on Tuesday one of the men they shot dead during the siege of a Dhaka cafe on the weekend may have been a hostage killed by mistake, while the hunt for accomplices of the gunmen who killed 20 people focused on six suspects.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2016
Victims of Dhaka massacre repatriated; Japan to step up action against terrorism
The bodies of seven Japanese murdered by Islamic extremists in Bangladesh were repatriated Tuesday when an Air Self-Defense Force jet carrying their coffins arrived at Tokyo's Haneda airport.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 5, 2016
Bangladesh hunts for six alleged accomplices of cafe attackers
Bangladeshi police hunted on Tuesday for six members of a domestic Islamist group they suspect helped gunmen attack a Dhaka cafe, as officials began questioning families of the militants for clues as to what turned them into killers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 5, 2016
Japan lacks capacity to handle terror threats
Following the terrorist attack last week in Bangladesh that left seven Japanese among the nearly 30 people — hostages, security personnel and perpetrators — who were killed, Japan's government is facing the harsh reality that it lacks the capacity to ensure the safety of its citizens from terrorism abroad.

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