{"id":4035,"date":"2016-05-30T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T09:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/30\/photo-of-hostage-japanese-journalist-released-nearly-a-year-after-he-entered-syria\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T09:25:54","slug":"photo-of-hostage-japanese-journalist-released-nearly-a-year-after-he-entered-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/30\/photo-of-hostage-japanese-journalist-released-nearly-a-year-after-he-entered-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of hostage Japanese journalist released nearly a year after he entered Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new picture of Jumpei Yasuda has surfaced, nearly a year after the Japanese journalist entered Syria and went missing a month after, in July.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old Yasuda is believed to be held by a militant al-Qaeda branch, called the Nusra Front, that is fighting the government.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Missing Japanese journalist’s captors post hostage video from Syria<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The group released the picture to multiple news outlets on Sunday, showing Yasuda with a longer beard and hair than in previous media releases.<\/p>\n

According to the <\/span>Japan Times<\/i>, the card Yasuda holds up in the picture <\/span>reads<\/a>\u00a0in Japanese: “Please help. This is the last chance. Jumpei Yasuda.”<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Japan<\/a>, Al Qaeda<\/a>, Islamic State<\/a>, Syria<\/a>, and World<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new picture of Jumpei Yasuda has surfaced, nearly a year after the Japanese journalist entered Syria and went missing a month after, in July. The 42-year-old Yasuda is believed to be held by a militant al-Qaeda branch, called the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3133,1024,794,826,1112],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-al-qaeda","tag-islamic-state","tag-japan","tag-syria","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}