Japanese families do not want media coverage of their victims

Japanese families do not want their Dhaka terror victims covered by media as they have paid respect to the bodies soon after their arrival in Bangladesh on Sunday night.

Highly placed sources told bdnews24.com that throughout the night Japanese state minister for foreign affairs Seiji Kihara and his Bangladesh counterpart Md Shahriar Alam met the families and tried to console them while the families paid respect to the victims in cantonment area.
 
A senior JICA vice-president who travelled from Tokyo was also there, as all of the victims were the consultants of this Japanese aid agency.
 
When asked, the state minister, Alam, told bdnews24.com that “in deference to the request from Japanese families and government, we are not disclosing any information and hope Bangladesh media will respect their sentiments.”
 
Earlier, last year when a Japanese national, Kunio Hoshi, was killed in northern part of Bangladesh, Japanese embassy made three requests to Bangladesh media.
 
One of them was to “refrain from using the picture of Hoshi, especially those related to his murder, in due consideration to his family's request.”
 
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe earlier said he was “profoundly outraged.”
 
He termed the deaths of the Japanese in Friday night’s unprecedented attack on a Gulshan café “a truly regrettable outcome”.
 
“All of those who lost their lives had gone to Bangladesh in the spirit of wanting to work for the good of that country,” he said.
 
Abe sent the victims’ families in a special aircraft to pay respect, and also sent the state minister for foreign affairs to make an on-spot assessment of ground realities, as he vowed “to devote our utmost efforts to shed light on this incident”.
 
 The families will fly back on Monday.