I was waiting for Jose and his co-worker at Tachikawa station tonight and I was just sitting quietly listening to music on my phone, when this guy walks past me.  An older man with a scraggly beard and mustache, and he's starting at me...  I mean not just a casual glance, but full on hardcore staring at me.  Normally when I'm in Japan, no one pays ( Read more... )

Last night we got into Japan.  I forget how long the flight is.  We left Tampa at about quarter of six to catch our 8 AM flight to Detroit and then had to pretty much motor over to our next flight, because it boarded about 30 minutes after we came in.  But it was pretty much a 12 hour flight to Tokyo from Detroit.  12 hours of pretty much sitting ( Read more... )

( Some of this is TMI-y so you've been warned! )