Japan to convene 150-day Diet session amid hostage crisis

Japan to convene 150-day Diet session amid hostage crisis

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters his office on Jan. 26, 2015, as the Japanese Diet convened a 150-day regular session. Abe is faced with a hostage crisis, in which one of two Japanese hostages being held by a group thought to be Islamic State is believed to have been killed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000062884
  • Registered date
  • 2015/1/26 09:32:53
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • Media size
  • 2175 × 3055 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 528.00(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Abe, Trump vow to work to stop N. Korea missile launch at Guam

    Abe, Trump vow to work to stop N. Korea missile launch at Guam

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo after telephone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on Aug. 15, 2017. The two leaders agreed to work together to prevent North Korea from carrying out its threat to launch ballistic missiles across Japan toward the U.S. territory of Guam. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
      Victims of Lima hostage crisis remembered 20 years on

      Victims of Lima hostage crisis remembered 20 years on

      Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani leads a remembrance Mass at a cathedral in Lima, Peru, on April 23, 2017. Former hostages, who were held at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima by leftist rebels during a four-month siege in 1997, attended the Mass, held a day after the 20th anniversary of the ending of the crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
        Victims of Lima hostage crisis remembered 20 years on

        Victims of Lima hostage crisis remembered 20 years on

        A remembrance Mass is held at a cathedral in Lima, Peru, on April 23, 2017, a day after the 20th anniversary of the end of a siege at the Japanese ambassador's residence in the capital, where leftist rebels held hostages for four months in 1997. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
          Peru marks 20th anniv. of end to hostage crisis at Japan envoy house

          Peru marks 20th anniv. of end to hostage crisis at Japan envoy house

          Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, shown in this photo taken in Lima in December 2014, took to Twitter on April 20, 2017 to praise the operation he ordered to rescue hostages taken by leftist guerillas at the official residence of the Japanese ambassador in the Peruvian capital in 1997, two days ahead of the 20th anniversary of the event. The operation to end the four-month-long hostage crisis resulted in the rescue of 71 hostages and the deaths of one hostage, two soldiers and the guerillas. Fujimori is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
            Peru marks 20th anniv. of end to hostage crisis at Japan envoy house

            Peru marks 20th anniv. of end to hostage crisis at Japan envoy house

            Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (C) gives a decoration to a woman whose relative was one of the two soldiers killed in April 1997 during an operation to free hostages held at the official residence in Lima of the Japanese ambassador, during a ceremony in the Peruvian capital on April 20, 2017, ahead of the 20th anniversary two days later of the end to the four-month-long crisis, in which 71 hostages were freed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
              Peru marks 20th anniv. of end to hostage crisis at Japan envoy house

              Peru marks 20th anniv. of end to hostage crisis at Japan envoy house

              The Peruvian military holds a ceremony outside a real-size replica (R) of the Japanese ambassador's official residence in Lima on April 20, 2017, ahead of the 20th anniversary two days later of the end to a four-month-long hostage crisis at the residence. The replica, open to the public as a museum, was built during the crisis to train soldiers in freeing hostages held by leftist guerillas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                Hostage crisis at Dhaka cafe

                Hostage crisis at Dhaka cafe

                Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with reporters in Tokyo on July 2, 2016, in the wake of a hostage crisis in Dhaka, Bangladesh, involving Japanese nationals. Abe convened a meeting of the National Security Council. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                  Muslims in Japan harassed in wake of hostage crisis

                  Muslims in Japan harassed in wake of hostage crisis

                  File photo taken Feb. 1, 2015, shows Muslims from across Japan praying for Kenji Goto, a Japanese journalist believed to have been killed by the Islamic State militant group, at Otsuka Mosque in Tokyo's Toshima Ward. At least six mosques and a Muslim organization in Japan have received threats since a hostage crisis that saw Goto and another Japanese man killed by the group, a Kyodo News survey showed Feb. 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                    Hostage crisis involving Islamic State group

                    Hostage crisis involving Islamic State group

                    Photo taken Jan. 30, 2015, shows the Japanese Embassy in Amman, Jordan, where a government task force has been set up to deal with a hostage crisis involving the Islamic State group. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                      Japan seeks cooperation of Jordan over hostage crisis

                      Japan seeks cooperation of Jordan over hostage crisis

                      Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2015. He reiterated that Japan is seeking cooperation from Jordan to achieve the release of a Japanese man held by captors believed to be Islamic State militants. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo