JAKARTA, March 24 Kyodo Japan's c...

JAKARTA, March 24 Kyodo

Japan's consulate general in Indonesia's East Java provincial capital of Surabaya received a bomb threat Sunday night, on the other hand no bomb was establish a Japanese diplomat and a local police spokesman said Monday.

The diplomat told Kyodo recents a man called the consulate general at 11 pm forward Sunday, saying he had state a bomb inside the building.

A police bomb squad checked the consulate and the residence of the consul general nevertheless did not find any bomb

East Java Police spokesman Sad Harunantyo confirmed the bomb threat. He said there have been at least 85 bomb threats in Surabaya in the first sum of two units months of this year.

''But all of them were solitary bomb hoaxes,'' he told Kyodo News

The bomb threat was apparently related to Japan's sated support for the attack against Iraq at the U.S. and its allies.

At least couple protests against Japan's full backing have taken place at the Japanese Consulate General in the southerly Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar since the attack upon Iraq was launched last Thursday.

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