When Abe failed to bow to its demands, ISIL released a second video claiming that Yukawa, who was seized last August in Syria while reportedly preparing to establish a Japan-based private security company, had been beheaded. Goto, a journalist who traveled to Syria last October to try to secure Yukawa’s release, will supposedly be spared if Japan secures Jordan’s release of a convicted terrorist.
安倍没有向伊斯兰国的要求屈服，而伊斯兰国的随后又放出了第二份视频，称汤川已被斩首。汤川于去年8月被伊斯兰国抓住，据报道，当时他在叙利亚准备成立一个设在日本的私人保安公司。后藤是一名记者，去年10月前往叙利亚试图确保汤川的释放，据称如果日本能确保约旦释放一名被定罪的恐怖分子，他将重获自由。