71.   Leftist rebels were holding hundreds of hostages, including the ambassador and many other Japanese citizens, and threatening to kill the captives unless Peru frees jailed guerrillas.

72.   Lopes has played here since he was a teen-ager and became a Japanese citizen last fall.

73.   Lebanese agents have arrested seven people, including five Japanese citizens suspected of being members of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group, a government official said Tuesday.

74.   Lebanese agents have arrested seven people, including five Japanese citizens, suspected of being members of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group, a government official said Tuesday.

75.   Meanwhile Japanese military personnel took a commercial flight from Singapore to Indonesia yesterday to plan a possible evacuation of Japanese citizens from the strife-torn country.

76.   Meanwhile, Japan, which granted Fujimori citizenship, will not deport him because he is considered a Japanese citizen, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.

77.   Nine Japanese citizens died in the accident.

78.   North Korea said Friday a lengthy investigation found no evidence that missing Japanese citizens are in its territory, despite allegations of kidnappings by its agents.

79.   North Korea is accused of allowing its spies to abduct Japanese citizens.

80.   Officials in the breakaway republic of Chechnya said Wednesday that they have expelled a Japanese citizen who was found taking photos of secret facilities, a news agency reported.