Japan Reacts Islamic State Hostage Crisis

AMMAN, JORDAN - JANUARY 20: Cars carrying Japanese vice Foregin Minister Yasuhide Nakayama enters the Japanese Embassy where the emergency headquarters on hostage crisis by the Islamic State is located, on January 20, 2015 in Amman, Jordan. Japan has been struggling to gather information as the Japanese Embassy in Syria has been closed since March 2012 due to the deterioration of the civil war. Japan has been threatened by the Islamic State to execute two Japanese hostages, 47-year-old freelance journalist Kenji Goto and 42-year-old Haruna Yukawa, the founder of a private security company unless Tokyo pays the 200 million US dollars ransom in 72 hours. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)