Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, currently on a Middle Eastern tour with an entourage including many CEOs, faces a serious crisis.  ISIS has released a video of two Japanese hostages with a threat, apparently from the same British-accented fighter, dubbed “Jihadi John,” to behead them online, as he did to other Western hostages. The $200-million figure is a reference to the same amount just pledged by Japan for humanitarian aid to refugees from the fighting in Syria.  ISIS takes this as a pledge to its enemies and worse: “To the Japanese public, just as how your government has made the foolish decision to pay 200 million to fight the Islamic State, you now have 72 hours to pressure your government in making a wise decision by paying the 200 million to save the lives of your citizens,” the masked man said in the video, speaking with what sounded like a British accent. “Otherwise this knife will become your...(Read Full Post)