The final diary entry penned by Katsuhiko Oku, a diplomat who died in an ambush Saturday in Iraq, was posted on the Foreign Ministry's Web site Monday.
The entry was written two days before his death in northern Iraq.
The site has received a flood of hits since Oku and another ministry official, Masamori Inoue, were gunned down, with site visitors wishing to read the "Letters from Iraq" Oku wrote while he was posted there.