Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda confessed Friday to a "silly mistake" in following two strangers into Syria in 2015, where he was quickly taken hostage and held for more than three years.Yasuda told a press conference in Tokyo, eight days after returning to Japan, that he did not know why he made that mistake.Recounting the days ahead of his abduction, Yasuda said he met a Syrian guide while in Turkey and exploring how to enter neighboring Syria, where he planned to collect first-hand information about the savage civil war there, for stories he would write for sale to Japanese n…READ FULL ARTICLE
