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The Two Japanese Made Hostage to ISIS
How can we save the two Japanese made hostage to ISIS?
How would God use this case for Muslims and Japanese?
Still a miracle might happen.
Who are the Japanese hostages 'held by Jihadi John'?
Japanese journalist Kenji Goto and self-styled military consultant Haruna Yukawa held as hostages by Islamic State arrived in war-torn region with different plans
By Julian Ryall, Tokyo10:26AM GMT 20 Jan 2015
Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa arrived in the Middle East on very different journeys, but became friends on the road into the heartland of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
Goto is a freelance journalist from Tokyo with a reputation for reporting from some of the world's most inhospitable places. He has written books on the impact of Aids on Africa and been on assignment for several of Japan's main news broadcasters in Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and other hot-spots across Africa and Asia.
In July last year, he posted a message on Facebook seeking assistance from an association of Iraqi journalists to get to Baghdad for a new assignment.
Goto and Yukawa apparently first met in Aleppo in April 2013, with Goto subsequently helping Yukawa to travel to Baghdad.
Goto is quoted in media as saying that Yukawa had befriended members of the Free Syrian Army, one of the factions fighting in Syria, and that they trusted him because he was so un-soldierly in his approach. They shared meals with him and introduced him to their families in refugee camps.
Media reports have suggested that Yukawa is a self-styled military consultant, although it appears he is more of a war enthusiast who wanted to get close to the fighting in Syria.
In the footage, the interrogator accuses Yukawa of being a member of the CIA.
After his capture, Reuters quoted friends and family of Yukawa as saying that he was on a journey of self-discovery after his wife died of lung cancer, his business had failed and his house had been repossessed. Yukawa had been living rough in a Tokyo park for a month before he left for the Middle East, according to his father.
He also reportedly attempted to commit suicide, changed his name to the more feminine-sounding Haruna and had begun to associate with some of Japan's more extreme nationalist organisations.Anyway, these two Japanese are very exceptional types among the 125 million Japanese, though the video footage of the two in custody released today over the Internet, which is apparently targeted at PM Abe's visit to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel now going on, has become big news in Japan.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11356773/Who-are-the-Japanese-hostages-held-by-Jihadi-John.html
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