31.   Japanese news media reported that one person, a Japanese national, was killed by the explosion.

32.   Jury selection has begun in the double murder trial of Raita Fukusaku, believed to be the first Japanese national to be extradited to the United States for murder.

33.   Japan granted Fujimori citizenship, and officials in Tokyo have said that as a Japanese national, he cannot be forced to return to Peru.

34.   Kono visited Croatia last week for talks with local leaders and the head of a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, Yasushi Akashi, a Japanese national.

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

36.   North Korea has consistently denied that it was involved in the disappearance of Japanese nationals.

37.   One co-defendant, a Japanese national, remains a fugitive.

38.   Police have added a woman to a list of Japanese nationals believed kidnapped by North Korean agents, the National Police Agency said Tuesday.

39.   Prosecutor-General Adnan Addoum, speaking to reporters Monday after meeting with a Japanese security delegation, also denied that Japanese nationals were arrested in Lebanon.

40.   Prosecutor-General Adnan Addoum, speaking to reporters Monday after meeting with a Japanese security delegation, denied that Japanese nationals were arrested in Lebanon.