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Yasuda Jupiter, missing from Syria in 2015
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Japanese freelance journalist Yasuda Junpei confirmed his release on July 24th. The picture was taken at the time of February 2015 before entering Syria. Tokyo / Kyodo News
Yasuda Junpei, 44, a Japanese journalist detained in a militant Islamist group, was released. Yasuda, who appeared on YouTube in July of last year, claimed to be "Korean" and fluent in Japanese.
Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Konodar said yesterday that a Turkish embbady official in Seoul has confirmed the release of Yasuda from Antalkia, Turkey. "I'm glad it's confirmed, it looks good," he says. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday: "We are grateful for the great cooperation we have in Qatar and Turkey (which has organized the release of Yasuda)". The secretary general of the Japanese Cabinet, Sugaya Yoshihide, said at an emergency press conference Saturday night that he had received a letter from the Qatari government informing him that the person identified as being Yasuda had been released from a militant group and was in an Antarctic immigration office in southern Turkey. Sugar said he sent an employee of the Japanese Embbady to Turkey to Antalkia. The Japanese government said it had not paid the ransom for the release of Yasuda. However, Rami Abdullahan, head of the Britain-based Syrian Human Rights Watch human rights group, said Qatar had raised $ 3 million (about $ 3.4 billion) in ransom.
The figure of a person who appears in the Japanese journalist Yasuda Junpei and who was revealed to the Internet last July.
Yasuda, a freelance journalist, disappeared on June 22, 2015, in the city of Libe, in northwestern Syria, in southern Turkey, to cover the civil war in Syria. Since 2016, his video has been broadcast several times on the Internet. In the July 31 video on YouTube, the person who looks like Yasuda is in Japanese. "I am calling Woohoo.It is Korean.The date of today is July 25th, 2018. It is in a very miserable environment.It's you please call me now. "Two people dressed in an orange jumpsuit and two men at the back were holding guns. It was the way Islamic extremist militants threatened the hostages. It is not clear why he claimed to be Korean, but it was estimated that four months before Yasuda's disappearance, two Japanese could be involved in beheadings in Islamic countries.
Tokyo / correspondent of the spring garden [email protected]
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