Reply #3: The Japanese hostages were freed and finally returned to Japan

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Instead of welcoming them home, they were told "You got what you deserved, you are Japan's Shame". I read that as that they shouldn't have been in Iraq in the first place. Here it is confirmed:

Japanese are cold to freed hostages

TOKYO The young Japanese taken hostage in Iraq returned home this week not to the warmth of a yellow ribbon embrace but to a disapproving nation's cold stare.

You got what you deserve!" one Japanese had written on a sign at the airport where they landed.

"You are Japan's shame," another wrote on the Web site of one of the hostages. They had "caused trouble" for everybody.

http://www.iht.com/articles/516600.html