1.   According to some press reports, Fujimori had taken refuge in the Japanese embassy.

2.   Japanese Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Eisuke Sakakibara will leave Japan tomorrow on a trip to Indonesia and the U.S., an official at the Japanese embassy said.

3.   Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto will meet with Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori tomorrow in Toronto to discuss the hostage crisis at the Japanese embassy in Peru.

4.   Kenji Shinoda of the Japanese embassy in Moscow sighed.

5.   Officials in the Japanese embassy in Washington and the State Department said they had not seen the bill and could not comment.

6.   The Americans, who had long ago broken the Japanese diplomatic code, monitor the messages between Tokyo and the Japanese embassy in Moscow.

7.   The guerrilla assault is focused on the chancery of the Japanese embassy.

8.   The Japanese embassy said that if sanctions are imposed this summer, Japan will appeal to the World Trade Organization, the new international court of commerce in Geneva.

9.   The Japanese embassy in Washington has asked the U.S. government to reconsider issuing the stamp.

10.   Organised by Resorts World Bhd, the event was held in co-operation with the Japanese embassy Japan cultural centre of Japan Foundation and Japan Plub of Kuala Lumpur.