TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was on a six-day tour of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine, when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) posted a video online threatening to murder two Japanese hostages, Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, if his government did not pay $200 million within 72 hours. Abe had no good options.
东京—当伊斯兰国在发布网上视频，威胁如果日本政府不在72小时内支付2亿美元赎金就杀掉两名日本人质汤川遥菜和后藤建二时，日本首相安倍晋三正在为期六天的埃及、约旦、黎巴嫩、以色列和巴勒斯坦的访问之旅中。安倍没有什么好选择。事实上，在保护海外公民的事情上，日本从未有所作为。