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(heat it up and add some vanilla ice cream on the side) You will see on the Bloomberg Business section of the website that we followed the story of the Japanese hostages pretty closely. It was something that I found really troubling. The Muslim religion says that when you die,

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Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NJ4HRK6JTSEJ (Bloomberg) — The wife of journalist Kenji Goto said she was proud of her husband’s passion for conveying the “tragedies of war” after his beheading by Islamic State. “My family and I are devastated by the news of Kenji’s death,” Rinko wrote in a statement published

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Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NIYZUU6K50YO (Bloomberg) — Japan said it was still working to free hostages held by Islamic State after the group’s deadline to execute the men passed, fueling concerns over their fate. The militant group had set a deadline of 11:30 p.m. Thursday in Tokyo to execute Japanese journalist

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Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NIOVX36JIJUQ (Updates with Japanese government official in third paragraph.) (Bloomberg) — A Japanese hostage was shown killed in a purported Islamic State video after a deadline passed for Japan to pay a $200 million ransom, according to the Japanese government and a terrorist-monitoring group. Haruna Yukawa, a

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(Bloomberg) — Japan is using “every channel available” to secure the release of Kenji Goto, a war journalist captured and threatened with death by Islamic State militants. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo on Monday that Japan would do its utmost to free Goto with the co-operation

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