Japan should broach Saudi journalist's murder at G20 summit: fiancee

While issues remain,regarding Khashoggi's death, Japan, particularly Abe, should keep his mouth shut on the issue.

While issues remain,regarding Khashoggi's death, Japan, particularly Abe, should keep his mouth shut on the issue.

It's Donny's job to speak out about this given Khashoggi was a permanent resident of the US.

Japan's politicians have always lacked the cojones to play any kind of moral leadership role on the international stage. Likewise the spineless Trump who can't even face the people he fires will be utterly incapable of dealing with the Khashoggi hot potato when he shakes hands with the Saudi psychopath.

Not a US citizen nor Japanese one. Not our business, take it to whatever international organization exists for this.

I am sorry, but Ms. Cengiz picked the wrong country.

Japan doesn't care about the human rights of non-Japanese.

She should have better luck pleading her case to EU member states.

Nobody dare step on Saudi toes - and now Trump has made his stance clear, nobody will do anything that will interfere with their relationship with the US.

That isn’t right, but it’s where we are in the world at the moment. A journalist can be brutally murdered and dismembered in an Embassy and no government with any level of influence dare hold the Saudis (and in many ways the current US administration) to account.

While Japan may be the host country of this summit and I can understand that she wants justice for her husband, this isn’t something that is Abe’s or Japan’s responsibility. In the world of relationships, what fights you choose to take and not take can have a huge impact on your economy. If the primary parties involved/affected are not standing up to get the answers, then there isn’t much Japan can do when those that have some responsibility are not responding.

Since KSA are always good arms customer, so nothing to worry for them.

USA shall use this issue to gain more business from KSA.

And human rights??? ha ha ha...

"This matter should be highlighted by Japan's state leader at the G20 summit," the Turkish woman said in an interview with Kyodo News.

No, it really shouldn't.

Taking into account that Saudi Arabia is the largest crude oil supplier to Japan, Cengiz said Tokyo will be able to demand that Riyadh bring to light the killing of the U.S.-based Saudi journalist.

Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish woman, should be asking her own government to deal with this situation.

People will listen but I believe it's low on the priority scale. Look what it's taken the Japanese to get the US to listen to their NK kidnapped people. Decades later very little has taken place.

tbh no one cares about that dude if he was been killed or not they made this as an international problem for just one guy, there are many people getting killed everywhere and no one said anything about it.

also asking Japan and G20 ?? LUL what a joke

Japan should stay out of it, the best position for Japan would be the Switzerland of Asia - stay neutral, look after your own Country forget meddling in the rest of the worlds affairs.

I'm afraid that most people just don't care about Saudi politics (and I'm one of them).

@Bungle - I think that kidnapping journalists and butchering their bodies is a little more than politics. Call it what it is: state sponsored murder.

While I would be more worried if it was my own country doing this, I am not so flippant as to say that I "don't care".

Arabs getting away with murder.

Whats new ?

The prince should be held accountable for this.

An impossible ask all the way from A - Z, even though what she says is probably all true. At least she will have got some free publicity for her case.

Being Turkish, she is freer to speak out against the royal family in Saudi Arabia than Khashoggi's wife and children.

abe san, pls leave this to trump, u will be too busy on yr own-country's human rights problems.

As bad and horrific as his murder was, for the life of me I just don’t understand by the man would go to his embassy knowing there’s a price on this head just to get a marriage certificate. He should have seen the writing on the wall.

Japan won't, it's simply not in their interest to do so.

Basically, when you've had it. No one cares these days. States just do what they want, and, if they're powerful enough... get away with it.

In the case of the Saudi's they are the hosts of the Hajj... so when their own ilk do away with their own - within a Country that follows their beliefs, what can you do ? Let them deal with it amongst themselves.

If on the other hand, they had done the same to a non-Muslim/Saudi, then - that's another matter.

As bad and horrific as his murder was, for the life of me I just don’t understand by the man would go to his embassy knowing there’s a price on this head just to get a marriage certificate. He should have seen the writing on the wall.

It probably never occurred to him that it was a trap and that they would kill him and cut up his body on the spot.