Crazy Japan

[affreca]

I sometimes get homesick for Japan. I'll admit I didn't have to deal with the troublesome bits of Japanese society, such as the sexism and issues with individuality. It is such a polite. I once left my purse on the train. I managed to get it back within an hour. I lost my cell phone, and got it back (by borrowing a cell phone from a German and calling it. The German translated for the nice old man who found it). My neighbor helped me break into my house when I left my keys on the ship.

So the story of a jobless man who is given a million yen is cool. I'm not surprised he turned it into the police. My favorite line is "Japan has seen a string of cases in which large sums of cash have been left anonymously in people's mailboxes or public toilets." How cool would that be. A string of such stories!

Comments

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

That is interesting. Oddly enough, I left my LonelyPlanet guidebook in the subway station bathroom and it was never to be seen again. I checked with the lost and found and even waited patiently in line to look into the specific stall I had left it in 20 minutes prior but to no avail. I also checked with the metro transit lost and found the day before I left to see if I could still recover it - but it never turned up.

Maybe it was another foreigner who found it and took it....

[(Anonymous)]

my first thought was another traveler too.
-biscuit

[(Anonymous)]

i think that is one of the coolest things i've heard in a long time.
-biscuit

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

ladyniniane's been to Japan too, and she loves so many things about it as well. I so want to go there someday.

(Also, I will have pennies for you this Tuesday, for the necklace.) :)