Kidnapped aid worker backs PM over 'no deal' stance

A Japanese woman kidnapped by Iraqi militants last month said she backed Tokyo’s rejection of her captors’ demands that it withdraw its troops from Iraq or see her burned alive.

In her first public remarks about her week-long ordeal, volunteer aid worker Nahoko Takato said she was terrified of being killed by the gunmen who took her and two compatriots hostage at an Iraqi petrol station on April 7.