So is Japan going to have the headache of their citizens joining up with ISIS?
Report: Japanese had plans to join Islamic State
5:05 AM Tuesday Oct 7, 2014
The reported investigation by Tokyo police would be the first indication of possible support within Japan for the militant group.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the reports.
Public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News service said investigators questioned a 26-year-old male Hokkaido University student and several men who shared a house with him on suspicion they were preparing to go to Syria to fight.
Investigators believe that the student, who is on a leave of absence from school, responded to a poster at a used-book store in downtown Tokyo offering positions for "work in Syria," Kyodo said. It quoted investigators as saying the student admitted he had planned to join the group in Syria. Police have not found records of any travel there, it said
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Report: Japanese had plans to join Islamic State
5:05 AM Tuesday Oct 7, 2014
The reported investigation by Tokyo police would be the first indication of possible support within Japan for the militant group.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the reports.
Public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News service said investigators questioned a 26-year-old male Hokkaido University student and several men who shared a house with him on suspicion they were preparing to go to Syria to fight.
Investigators believe that the student, who is on a leave of absence from school, responded to a poster at a used-book store in downtown Tokyo offering positions for "work in Syria," Kyodo said. It quoted investigators as saying the student admitted he had planned to join the group in Syria. Police have not found records of any travel there, it said
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Report Japanese had plans to join Islamic State - World - NZ Herald News
