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NZPA-Reuter Tokyo A man held a waitress at knife-point in a Tokyo restaurant yesterday after saying he wanted to set a new record of keeping a hostage. The police said the man, aged between 25 and 30, had refused to release the woman and had demanded three pistols and ammunition. More than 300 policemen surrounded the restaurant, in central Tokyo. Police said the man had held the woman since 1 a.m. yesterday (New Zealand time). It was not clear
what record he was trying to beat. Last March four Japanese Right-wing extremists surrendered to the Tokyo police after holding two hostages for more than 10 hours. In June, 1968, a man held 13 persons hostage at a central Japan inn for 88 hours. He was later imprisoned for life. The longest hostage inciden ended in June when South Moluccan gunmen held more than 50 Dutch schoolchildren and teachers for 445 hours in two separate sieges.
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