KIDNAPPED JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN ALIVE - CARDINAL
Kidnapped Japanese businessman Noboyuki
Wakaoji is alive and well and may soon be released, Cardinal
Jaime Sin, the archbishop of Manila, said.
    Wakaoji, head of the Philippines branch of Mitsui and Co
Ltd, is being visited on a daily basis by a senior priest, Sin
told reporters at a briefing. He refused to reveal Wakaoji's
whereabouts.
    The businessman was kidnapped last November and his captors
have demanded a five mln dlr ransom from Mitsui.
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