Extremist group ISIS demands $200M for Two Japanese hostages (Kenji Goto Jogo, a journalist, and Haruna Yukawa)

ISIS released a new video saying the terror group will kill two Japanese hostages (identified as Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna Yukawa) unless it receives $200 million in the next 72 hours 

according to a video released Monday.

In the video a black-clad militant pointed a knife at the heads of two Japanese hostages (Kenji Goto Jogo, a journalist, and Haruna Yukawa) on their knees in the desert wearing orange jumpsuits and demanded $200 million in reparations within 72 hours, a hefty penalty for Japan's financial support of the fight against Islamic State, "otherwise this knife will become your nightmare. You have proudly donated $100 million to kill our women and children, to destroy the homes of the Muslims,' the militant said to the camera in English and waving a knife. 'So the life of this Japanese citizen will cost you $100 million."

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, already in the Middle East as part of a six-day visit, demanded their release at a press conference in Jerusalem "It is unforgivable and I feel strong resentment. Extremism and Islam are completely different things."

The video, identified as being made by the Islamic State group's al-Furqan media arm and posted on militant websites associated with the extremist group, mirrored other hostage threats made the group.

The man speaking also resembled and sounded like a British militant involved in other beheadings by the Islamic State group, which now holds a third of Iraq and Syria under its self-declared caliphate.

"If true, the act of threat in exchange of people's lives is unforgivable and we feel strong indignation," Suga told journalists. "We will make our utmost effort to win their release as soon as possible."

Vice-Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama to be sent to Jordan to help coordinate ISIS hostage response, SNA Japan reported.

In August, a Japanese citizen believed to be Yukawa, a private military company operator in his early 40s, was kidnapped in Syria after going there to train with militants, according to a post on a blog kept. Pictures on his Facebook page show him in Iraq and Syria in July. One video on his page showed him holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle with the caption: "Syria war in Aleppo 2014."

"I cannot identify the destination," Yukawa wrote in his last blog post. "But the next one could be the most dangerous." He added: "I hope to film my fighting scenes during an upcoming visit."

Yukawa's father, Shoichi, who lives in Chiba, just outside Tokyo, could only tell Japanese public television station NKH that "I'm very confused" upon hearing the news.

Goto is a respected Japanese freelance journalist who went to report on Syria's civil war last year and knew of Yukawa.

"I'm in Syria for reporting," he wrote in an email to an Associated Press journalist in October. "I hope I can convey the atmosphere from where I am and share it."

The Islamic State group has beheaded and shot dead hundreds of captives — mainly Syrian and Iraqi soldiers — during its sweep across the two countries, and has celebrated its mass killings in extremely graphic videos. A British-accented jihadi also has appeared in the beheading videos of slain American hostages James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and with British hostages David Haines and Alan Henning.