出典: The Japan Times Freelance photographer Yuichi Sugimoto said Sunday that he still wants to travel to Syria, after the Foreign Ministry effectively confiscated his passport to keep him from going to the Middle East country, where the Islamic State militant group recently beheaded two Japanese captives . confiscate … 没収する、押収する、差し押さえる captive … 捕虜、人質 “I will avoid reckless activities and take enough measures to protect myself,” Sugimoto, 58, told Jiji Press at his home in the city of Niigata. “I want to go to Syria early and let people know what’s happening in the country,” he said. reckless …無謀な、無鉄砲な、向こう見ずな In a newspaper interview, Sugimoto has said he would leave Japan on Feb. 27 and enter Syria via Turkey. Authorities, including the Foreign Ministry, asked him to avoid the trip, but Sugimoto told them that he would not cancel the plan. On Saturday night, officials of the ministry came to Sugimoto’s home and ordered him to surrender his passport. They told him th...