How a Mentally Ill Japanese War Tourist Became an ISIS Hostage

Sam Biddle · 01/20/15 12:30PM

Two Japanese hostages were unveiled by ISIS this morning in a video demanding a $200 million ransom: A journalist named Kenji Goto, and "security contractor" named Haruna Yukawa. But Yukawa is less a private mercenary than a war tourist—one who traveled to Syria in the wake of a serious mental breakdown.