Posted on 01/31/2015 3:59:26 PM PST by Eleutheria5
A visibly upset Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to "never forgive terrorists" after the Islamic State (ISIS) released a video purportedly showing the beheading of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto.
"I am extremely angry about these heinous and despicable terrorist acts. We will never forgive terrorists," Abe told reporters in Tokyo on Sunday morning (local time), according to the AFP news agency.
"We will cooperate with the international community to make them atone for their crimes," he declared.
The ISIS claim was made in a video released online that included no mention of a Jordanian pilot also being held by the group and whom they have also threatened to kill.
In the video, Goto, a journalist, is seen kneeling next to a standing masked man who speaks with a British accent and blames the Japanese government for his "slaughter".
"I am at a loss for words thinking about the pain that (Goto's) family must feel," Abe said.
On Saturday, Japanese media quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama as saying that negotiations with the group were "deadlocked".
"The government has been working with the utmost efforts on the issue -- I'm deeply regret that this is the result," Abe said.
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Dear Japan: Still got ninjas? Might want to use them about now...
I don’t expect ISIS to be too broken up about not being ‘forgiven’ by the Japanese. In fact, were the PM of Japan to say,’Japan forgives and loves you!!”, ISIS would not take as great a pleasure as they now do in these acts of terrorism.
It is probably a mistake to think the Asians will (not) react to this as our Islam-friendly politicians do. Retaliation is likely.. too bad we will never hear about it..
Japan has no capability to project military force around the globe, so the lesson to be learned here is that a Japanese national has no business traveling to a Third World sh!t-hole where he/she has no recourse if they run into some kind of trouble.
Hey, Abe - grow a pair.
Sending the YaKUza after the ISIS turds.
But they’ll cooperate with the international community./sarc
If there were a President of the US, s/he would be able to ally with the Japanese government, the Chinese government, the Indian government, the Israeli government, and assorted European governments, and wipe ISIS off the face of the earth. It is possible that there will be a President in two years.
I would like for just one country’s leader to come out declare full scale war on this islamonazis and follow up with a thorough beat down....just one is all I ask.
In all seriousness, they do. And they will.
Going to be a lot of dead IS pukes soon. And then later. For about 1000 years.
America kicks your azz and then leaves or tries to rebuild you country.
The Japanese? They just kill people once pizzed off. Been that way for far longer than islam has existed. Those IS idiots have no idea what they terror they have sown for themselves...
Emperor Hirohito would have known how to exact some revenge.
Don’t count on it.
It’s high time the Japanese as well as the Germans regain their fighter instincts - WWII was a long time ago and a new war is brewing.
Or maybe that's only true on 24.
Sure. Japanese Ninjas’ yellow skin, slanted eyes and high cheekbones will blend right in in an Arab country. They’d never suspect a thing.
Sure. Like he got revenge on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese have plenty of capacity for violence, but Hirohito is not the paradigm you’re looking for.
As they would say when I was a kid; "That and a dime will get you a cup of coffee." -tom
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