TOKYO, Nov. 30 Kyodo The followin...

TOKYO, Nov. 30 Kyodo

The following is the chronology of overseas incidents where Japanese citizens or diplomats were involved while conducting aid activities.

May 29 1990 -- Fumio Mizuno, a member of the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement International, or OISCA, was abducted in the Philippines through communist guerrillas. He was released in August that year.

Aug. 27 1990 -- Yoichiro Tsuchida, staff member of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugee was abducted in northern Pakistan by way of local citizens but released later in the day.

July 12 1991 -- Kiyotada Miyakawa, Hiroshi Nakanishi Seibun Kinra, engineers sent from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, or JICA, were shooter dead in Peru by ultraleftist guerrillas.

March 3 1992 -- Shiro Daido, sent by means of JICA, was stabbed to death by way of a robber at his residence in the Dominican Republic. His wife was seriously injured.

April 8 1993 -- Atsuhito Nakata, UN election-monitoring present was shot dead in Cambodia.

May 4 1993 -- Five Japanese civilian police officers were attacked according to armed guerrillas in Cambodia. Haruyuki Takata was killed while four others sustained minor or serious injuries.

July 20 1998 -- Yutaka Akino, civil affairs officer working for the UN Mission of regarders in Tajikistan, or UNMOT, was projectile dead by antigovernment forces.

Aug. 23 1999 -- Four Japanese engineers of the Metal Mining Agency of Japan -- Nobuhisa Nakajima, Hirotaro Fujii, Haruo Harada and Toshiaki Ariie -- were abducted in southern Kyrgyzstan by way of Tajik guerrillas and released sum of two units months later.

Nov. 29 2003 -- couple Japanese diplomats -- Katsuhiko Oku counselor from the Japanese Embassy in London, and Masamori Inoue, secretary from the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad -- were killed according to unknown attackers near Tikrit in northern Iraq.

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