Raqqa - A tape containing Japanese journalists were missing in the Middle East supply. In the video, he said that so far detained by Al Qaeda based in Syria, as well as convey a message to his family and country.

"Hello, I Jumpei Yasuda. Today is my birthday, March 16," said the bearded man in the video was post on Facebook.

The man, sitting in a chair, while there was a table in front of him with a white wall in the background. In the tape he said misses his family, but can not be with them, as reported by Reuters on Thursday (03/17/2016).

The man wearing a black sweater with a scarf.Throughout the one-minute recording, he spoke English with calm. However, several times stopped emotion.

Media Japan reported Yasuda was arrested by Garda Nusra after entering Syria via Turkey in June 2015. Yasuda previously entered Syria.

Her friend, who asked not to be name, believing that Yasuda was detained by militants. Twitter had a man 42 years old who had always been active, no longer had no status updates since June 20.

Official Japanese television, NHK said it was talking to someone on the telephone with a man whose mem- posting the video. The man received a tape from a man who tried to free Yasuda.

Chairman of the Japanese cabinet, Yoshihide Suga said the man in the tape really is Yasuda.

"The safety of Japanese citizens is our priority and we are looking for information and other efforts to respond to this problem," said Suga.

Earlier, the terror group ISIS has beheaded two Japanese citizens. They are a security consultant and a war reporter at the beginning of last year.

Execution awful it made the Japanese public anger, but the government when it says it will not negotiate with terrorists for their release.

Prime Minister Abe Shizo under pressure in dealing with the hostage crisis, something he wants to avoid elections next summer.

Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the tape, but Kyodo news agency said the mother was crying and saying, "I hope he comes home safe."

Want to Hug family

The man on the tape did not provide any information about who is detained also request whatever they wanted.

After saying he wished he could hug his wife, mother father and brother, he said, "There's something I want to tell my country, when you sit there, wherever, in a dark room, suffering from sickness and no people. nobody answered, nobody responded. you're invisible. "

Yasuda decided to become a journalist freelance in 2003 after a trip to Afghanistan. He started to reporting from Iraq and had been arrested several times.

He was detained by militia in Baghdad in April 2004. At that time Yasuda publicly criticized for endangering him go to conflict zones, and make Japan should negotiate for his release