Japanese officials are working closely with those in Jordan as efforts to win the release of two ISIL held hostages intensify.<br />.<br />After an emergency cabinet meeting <br />Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his anger at a video apparently showing hostage Kenji Goto saying he could be killed in 24 hours.<br /><br /> “It is a despicable act. I feel strong anger. I have ordered that we ( Jordan) work together as one on securing the release of Kenji Goto as soon as possible.”<br /><br /> ISIL claim already to have killed a fellow captive of Goto, Japanese security specialist Haruna Yukawa,.<br /><br /> Jordanian pilot Mu’ath al Kaseasbeh, who was captured by ISIL militants after his fighter jet crashed near the group’s capital of Raqqa in December is also being threatened.<br /><br /> The 26-year-old Jordanian is the first foreign military piolt to fall into the extremists’ hands since the US-led coalition that includes Jordan began its aerial campaign against ISIL in August.<br /><br /> On Tuesday night about 200 of the pilot’s rela
