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Article: Diplomat: Two Japanese teachers missing in Afghanistan believed alive
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- August 27, 2005
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DANIEL COONEY, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-27-2005
Dateline: KABUL, Afghanistan
A Japanese diplomat said Saturday that he doubts that two Japanese schoolteachers missing in Afghanistan have been kidnapped or killed _ but that he has no idea where they are.
The two teachers _ a man and a woman _ crossed into Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan on Aug. 8 and have not been seen or heard from since, said Kenji Saito, the first secretary at the Japanese Embassy in Kabul.
The two had been expected to return to Japan last week, but have not come home.
"If they had been killed, someone would have found the bodies and we would know. I don't believe they are dead," Saito said in an ...