Algeria hostage crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) and other attendees observe a moment of silence at the outset of a meeting of the government's task force on a hostage crisis in Algeria at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. A government plane carrying the bodies of nine Japanese victims and the seven Japanese survivors of the previous week's crisis reached Tokyo the same day. (Photo by Kyodo News Stills via Getty Images)