Japan confirmed Wednesday freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda has been released after more than three years of captivity in Syria and is now in Turkey, and will be coming home as soon as possible."I have received a report that he is speaking normally to (Japanese) embassy officials," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters.Japanese officials had been trying to verify whether a man who had arrived at an immigration facility in the southern Turkish city of Antakya near the border with Syria was indeed the 44-year-old journalist, after being informed of his release Tuesday night by Qatar.A man…READ FULL ARTICLE
