The mother of a Japanese journalist facing a possible Friday deadline for execution by ISIS, made an emotional appeal for the militant group to release her son, revealing he had recently become a ...

While the ISIS executions of two Japanese hostages have reinvigorated a public debate about the country’s postwar pacifism, recent moves by Tokyo to revise its counterterrorism policies should be ...

The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pays a $200 million ransom within 72 hours, in a video posted on jihadist websites on Tuesday. In the footage, a ...

The man in the video did not give any information about who was holding him or any demands they had. A video surfaced on Thursday appearing to show a missing Japanese journalist, reportedly held by an ...