JALALABAD (AFP) - Afghan police Wednesday found the bullet-scarred body of a Japanese aid worker, a day after he was kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, a district governor said. Kazuya Ito, 31, who had spent the past five years working in the war-ravaged country, was seized on his way to his daily inspection of an irrigation project being built by his employer. "We found the abducted Japanese man minutes ago. He has been shot several times," Kuz Kunar district governor Malim Mashouq told AFP. Ito's Afghan driver and translator, who was abducted together with him and freed after several hours, recognised the body, Mashouq said. A police spokesman waiting at the foot of the mountain where the body was found also told AFP that it seemed to be Ito. "But we are waiting to see in person to make 100 percent sure it is him." In Tokyo, Japanese officials said that a body was being transported to the eastern city of Jalalabad for identification and that one of its diplomats was heading there. An official of the Peshawar-kai non-governmental group who employed Ito confirmed the killing. Meanwhile Japan, a leading donor to Afghanistan, said it would not alter its assistance after authorities in the war-torn country said a Japanese aid worker was killed. "The Japanese government's commitment to Afghan reconstruction and the war on terror will never change," foreign ministry spokesman Kazuo Kodama told a news conference.