Who is Toshifumi Fujimoto?

Toshifumi Fujimoto (45) was bored with a job as a truck driver. Everyday he drove a tanker truck from Osaka to Tokyo carrying gas, water or even chocolate.

As a result of that boredom, Fujimoto decided he needed something to spur adrenaline. And the choice is really unusual war he became a tourist to Syria.



This is not the first time Fujimoto walk to kawsan dangerous. Last year he was in Yemen when residents protested the country's embassy in the United States. A year earlier Fujimoto was in Egypt to witness the fall of Hosni Mubarak.


His adventures will not stop in Syria. Fujimoto later this year plans to go to Afghanistan and live with the Taliban, told hindustantimes.


However, today Fujimoto being "enjoy" sightseeing week in Aleppo, Syria for six months a battle between Syrian government troops and rebel forces in a conflict that already eliminating 60,000 lives it.


At the end of 2011, Fujimoto had been to Syria for two weeks with a tourist visa. But this time she was smuggled to Syria through Turkey.


With the Japanese army attire and "armed with" two cameras and a video camera, Fujimoto heading to the front lines to document any destruction in Syria's second largest city and once the country's commercial capital.


Fujimoto who can not speak English and Arabic, only know a few words in Arabic as "dangerous" or "frontline". The only way he communicates is to use the Google translate.


"I always go by myself because no tour guides who are willing to go to the front lines," said Fujimoto.


"It's very exciting. Very pumping adrenaline. In Syria more dangerous to be a journalist rather than a tourist," he continued.


Every day, Fujimoto heading to the front lines and being with rebel forces clashed with government forces.


"All this is very enjoyable. Fact, members of the rebel forces often ask for a picture with me," he said.


Not infrequently, the rebels warned him about the dangers of the sniper or snipers. However, Fujimoto disregard the warning and keep taking photos to upload to his Facebook account.


"The sniper was not after me because I'm just a tourist, not a journalist. I do not even worry if I end up dead tertembaj," said Fujimoto, who never wore an anti-bullet.


Fujimoto, who was divorced from his wife had three daughters were not seen in the past five years.


"They did not even contact me via Facebook or the internet. Was depressing me," he sobbed.


However, Fujimoto have life insurance to a third daughter.


"I pray every day, if something happened to me, then I hope the insurance money can I make my daughter happy third life," he hoped.


Although he had many conflicts Syrian upload photos to the internet, Fujimoto did not get any money from the pictures it.

And to go to Syria he spent 2500 dollars cash for a flight to Turkey and the cost of 25 dollars per day for a Syrian who gave him lodging and internet access.