{"id":39716,"date":"2015-01-26T02:44:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39716"},"modified":"2015-01-26T02:44:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:44:26","slug":"obama-slams-isils-murder-of-japanese-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/26\/obama-slams-isils-murder-of-japanese-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama slams ISIL&#8217;s murder of Japanese hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29384\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29384\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058.jpg\" alt=\"US President Barack Obama during an official meeting with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in Washington, DC  (Mykhaylo Palinchak \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Barack Obama (Mykhaylo Palinchak \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday strongly denounced the murder of a Japanese citizen by the terrorist group ISIL and called for the release of other hostages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States strongly condemns the brutal murder of Japanese citizen Haruna Yukawa by the terrorist group ISIL,&#8221; the president said in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our condolences today are with the people of Japan for their terrible loss. We renew our call for the immediate release of Kenji Goto and all other remaining hostages,&#8221; said Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Obama reiterated the determination to defeat ISIL, saying &#8220;we will work together to bring the perpetrators of these murders to justice and will continue to take decisive action to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ISIL demanded Japan to pay a ransom of 200 million U.S. dollars for the lives of the hostages of Haruna Yukawa, 42, a security contractor from Chiba Prefecture and Kenji Goto, 47, a freelance journalist from Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture according to a video released on YouTube earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted online Saturday showed that one of the two men held hostage by Islamic State jihadists had been executed, though the recording can not be verified so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday strongly denounced the murder of a Japanese citizen by the terrorist group &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","mauthors-xinhua-news-agency-via-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}