News everywhere is swamped with the latest on ISIS reportedly threatening to behead two Japanese hostages unless the nation pays a $200 million ransom.The freelance journalist’s wife first received an email in November from an unidentified party saying that it had captured Goto, according to the sources. His wife exchanged several emails with the party, but the messages did not include threats to kill Goto. The sources said the government believes the emails were from the Islamic State group, since the address the messages were sent from resembles one used by the group in past hostage cases. The government officially identified the two hostages shown in a video footage purportedly released by the extremist group as Goto and Haruna Yukawa, a self-proclaimed private security contractor. The group has threatened to execute the two unless Japan pays a $100 million ransom for each.
