Candle lit vigil and Peace protest, against Iraqi war, and in support of kidnapped Japanese man Shosie Koda, Tokyo, Japan.

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Supporters of the Peace Boat NGO held a candle lit vigil outside Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi s residence for Shosei Koda, the Japanese youth kidnapped and held hostage, and later beheaded and murdered by Islamic militants, in Baghdad, Iraq. The demonstrators called on Japanese Prime Minister Juichiro Koizumi to withdraw the Japan Self Defense Force troops from Iraq when their current tour of duty finishes on December 14th 2004.

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