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akujunkanStory One: An acquaintance here in the prefecture, upon finally passing the driver's test, asked "Hey, how come Japanese driver's licenses don't have hair or eye color on them?"
Story Two: Two middle aged Japanese men sat across from me on the train from Osaka to Kyoto. They took in my appearance and then began to bitch. "She must be a JET. The quality of English teachers has been going down recently, hasn't it? Look at all her piercings. Look at what she's wearing! This would not have been permitted half a decade ago..." And so forth.
I let them continue in this vein for fifteen or twenty minutes, then withdrew my Japanese novel from my bag and started reading.
I wish I'd had a camera on me to capture the looks on their faces.
Story Three: A Japanese woman actually drove into someone else's car because she was so busy staring at my foreign friend.
Story Four: Enough Japanese people have asked me, "Do you have Coca Cola in America?" that I now tell them, "No, it's one of my favorite things about Japan" with a straight face.
That will be all.
Story Two: Two middle aged Japanese men sat across from me on the train from Osaka to Kyoto. They took in my appearance and then began to bitch. "She must be a JET. The quality of English teachers has been going down recently, hasn't it? Look at all her piercings. Look at what she's wearing! This would not have been permitted half a decade ago..." And so forth.
I let them continue in this vein for fifteen or twenty minutes, then withdrew my Japanese novel from my bag and started reading.
I wish I'd had a camera on me to capture the looks on their faces.
Story Three: A Japanese woman actually drove into someone else's car because she was so busy staring at my foreign friend.
Story Four: Enough Japanese people have asked me, "Do you have Coca Cola in America?" that I now tell them, "No, it's one of my favorite things about Japan" with a straight face.
That will be all.