Mr Yasuda's plight came to attention in March, when a video surfaced showing him reading a message to his country and his family. Japanese media said he was cap tured by a group called the al-Nusra Front after entering Syria from Turkey last June Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said the government was analysing the new photo and believed it was Mr Yasuda, while Chief Cabinet Spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the government was doing what it could