ISIS斬頭事件將如何可能改變日本

A video released on IslamicState-affiliated Twitter accounts show theapparent beheading of Haruna Yukawa, a 42-year-old Japanese citizen who had been held captive by ISIS forces since last August. Yukawa's death hasn't been independently verified, but the Japanese government said it believes the videoto be authentic. The beheading came days after ISIS demanded Japan pay a $200million ransom to free Yukawa and Kenji Goto, a 47-year-old journalist and fellow captive. The Japanese government had pledged to free the hostages, but said it would not "bow to terrorism." According toGoto, who spoke in the video that showed Yukawa's purported execution, ISIS will free him if Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi, a female affiliate currently imprisoned in Jordan, is released.

ISIS在推特上發佈了一個斬首自去年8月份就遭到他們逮捕的42歲人質湯川的視頻。他的死亡還沒有獲得獨立查證，但是日本政府認爲這個視頻是真實的。而在幾天前，ISIS要求日本政府支付2億美元的贖金來釋放這兩名人質（另外一名人質是47歲的記者）。日本政府承諾會去解救這些人質，但是稱不會向恐怖主義低頭。這名47歲的記者在一個處決了42歲人質的視頻中說道，如果一名現在被關押在約旦的女犯人SajidaMubarak al-Rishawi得到釋放的話，那麼ISIS就會釋放他。

In a hastily arranged news conference,Japan reacted with outrage.

在後來臨時安排的一個新聞發佈會上，日本做出了憤怒的迴應。

"The Japanese government will not givein to terrorism and will continue to contribute to the peace and stability ofthe international community and the world," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters.

“日本政府不會向恐怖主義低頭，將繼續對國際社會和世界的和平和穩定做出貢獻，”首相安倍對記者們說。

For Abe, whose Liberal Democratic Party didwell in regional elections in December, the crisis with the Islamic Statepresents Japan with a dilemma. Since assuming the country's top office, Abe hassupported removing Article 9 of Japan's constitution, a pacifist measure thathas guided Japanese foreign policy since World War II. The prime minister hasargued that the clause has become an achronistic in a world where China, along time adversary, has greatly improved its military capacity. Following the elections in December, Defense Minister Gen. Nakatami explained the rationale.

對於安倍來說（其自民黨在12月份的地區選舉上獲得大勝），這次ISIS危機讓日本陷入困境。自從成爲日本的領導人以來，安倍支持將第九條移出日本憲法，作爲和平主義的第九條自二戰結束以來就一直指導着日本的外交政策。安倍認爲由於長久以來的敵人中國在軍事上獲得很很大的提升，所以這個條款已經過時了。在12月份的選舉之後，日本國防部長Nakatami闡述了其中的道理。

"Japan's security environment haschanged, and we must fortify our national security," he said. However, there's no guarantee Yukawa'sdeath will galvanize public support for Abe's proposal. An unstableman with a history of mental illness, Yukawa had traveled to Syria last summer with the intention of working as a private security contractor. Sincehis capture in August, the public has largely reacted with anger that he placed himself in such ad angerous situation. In 2004, the capture of four Japanese aid workers in Iraq elicited a similar lack of sympathy back home.

“日本的安全環境已經改變，我們必須對我們的國家安全進行強化，”他說。然而這名42歲人質的死無法保證將刺激民衆去支持安倍的提議。這名人質患有精神疾病，於去年夏天以私人安全服務承包商的身份前往敘利亞。自8月份被ISIS逮捕以來，公衆的主要反應是憤怒，認爲在那麼危險的情況下他還跑到敘利亞去。2004年，四名日本救援人員在伊拉克被捕時，日本國內也是這樣缺乏同情心。

In any case, Abe's optionsare limited. In 2013, Japan signed a pledge by the G8, a group of the world's largest economies, to deny ransom payments to terrorist organizations.

無論如何，安倍的選擇是有限的。2013年，日本簽署了G8國家的一份保證書，規定不向恐怖組織支付贖金。