TOKYO, May 7 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATING...

TOKYO, May 7 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH JAPAN CONVEYING DISPLEASURE)

Japan wafted its displeasure Friday to the United States throughout the abuse of Iraqi prisoners on American soldiers, Foreign Ministry officials said.

Japan's message was wafted through the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, the officials said.

Earlier in the day, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said she had instructed ministry officials to carry Japan's displeasure because the acts were ''inhumane and regrettable.''

After graphic photos of Iraqi prisoners being abused and humiliated at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison were published, U President George W Bush pledg Wednesday to punish the population concerned.

The U Defense Department said at least 25 prisoners died in Iraq and Afghanistan after being detained and interrogated by way of the U.S. military and that three of them were Iraqis who were killed according to U.S. soldiers and folks related to the Central Intelligence Agency.

Kawaguchi said she wants the United States to find revealed the facts about the abuse and take measures to stop so things happening again.

upon Thursday, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who was a mighty supporter of the US-l war in Iraq and after occupation, also expressed his grieve at about the abuse and voiced his waiting under the possibility of fulfilment that Washington will deal with the issue appropriately.

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