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Aomori man is believed among dead
A 51-year-old Japanese tourist killed in Saturday's bomb blasts on the
Indonesian island of Bali was tentatively identified as Akio Kawasaki, an
employee of Hachinohe University in Aomori Prefecture, university officials
said Sunday.
Kawasaki's family departed for Bali to identify the remains of the man, who was
confirmed dead by the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta, the officials said, adding
the family was expected to arrive on Bali on Monday morning via Seoul.
Embassy officials said later in the day that reports of another Japanese being
killed were false.
The embassy said four other Japanese nationals were hurt in the bombings. Local
hospitals identified them as brothers Yusuke and Takehiko Matsuda, aged 35 and
34, Kawasaki's 42-year-old wife Emi and Akitoshi Zaitsu.
Kawasaki was honeymooning on Bali with his wife, a nurse whom he married in
July, according to the officials and his family. He was on vacation from Sept.
26 through Wednesday.
Before boarding the plane for Seoul, Emi's mother said, "I heard that she was
only slightly injured, but my anxieties won't be eased until I actually see
her."
Group tours canceled
Travel agency H.I.S. Co. canceled its group tours Sunday to the Indonesian
resort island of Bali in the wake of the bomb blasts that killed at least 26
people, including a Japanese national believed to be one of its customers.
Indonesian airline Garuda Indonesia said it received cancellations for about
200 seat reservations on Sunday's flights from Japan to Bali.
Tokyo-based H.I.S. has confirmed that most of its 950 customers and employees
on the island were uninjured, except for Akio Kawasaki, 51, who is believed to
have fallen victim to the bombings.
There were 2,693 Japanese group tourists on Bali from nine major travel agents
at the time of the incident, the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry
said.
The Japan Times: Oct. 3, 2005
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