Radical scholar provided Japan with channel to IS at hostage crisis peakTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s government opened a communication channel with Islamic State in the decisive stages of its recent hostage crisis but was unwilling to use it to start negotiations, according to a Tokyo-based Islamic scholar who briefly became an intermediary. Hassan Ko Nakata, a former Islamic law professor at Kyoto-based Doshisha University, attends a news conference at the Foreign Corre
