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Japanese officials meet after new video purportedly from hostage

This image obtained from the SITE Intelligence Group on January 24, 2015, shows a still image of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto in an orange blouse holding a photograph allegedly showing Haruna Yukawa's slain body, with an audio recording in which Goto spoke of the Islamic State group demand for a prisoner exchange to guarantee his release.

Senior Japanese officials were meeting late on Tuesday after a video emerged purporting to show Kenji Goto, a Japanese captive of Islamic State militants, saying he had 24 hours to live unless Jordan released a would-be suicide bomber.

The voice on the video resembled that of Goto in an earlier video over the weekend which the Japanese and U.S. governments believed was authentic.

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