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akujunkanAnd someone is being stopped by the cops and/or arrested right outside of my apartment building.
How do I know? Because the lights are lighting up my room like daybreak, and because the cop is on his megaphone telling the guy what to do. It's probably nothing really big; Japanese in positions of authority tend to blow things out of proportion* but all the same, there are some days I really wish I didn't live on the first floor.
Urg. Off to bed, at any rate.
*(Take for instance, the 不審者 (lit. 'suspicious person') reports regularly circulated throughout schools and the city hall. There was one circulating today at the elementary school I visited. Roughly summarised, its contents were as follows: a man was seen walking near the school grounds this afternoon.
Even yours truly may have been the subject of one of these reports earlier this year, when warnings were circulated that there were several sightings of man seen walking around the neighborhood at dusk. Which is when I take my walks, and the Japanese suffer from a righteous inability to identify my biological sex. You get the picture.)
That will be all.
How do I know? Because the lights are lighting up my room like daybreak, and because the cop is on his megaphone telling the guy what to do. It's probably nothing really big; Japanese in positions of authority tend to blow things out of proportion* but all the same, there are some days I really wish I didn't live on the first floor.
Urg. Off to bed, at any rate.
*(Take for instance, the 不審者 (lit. 'suspicious person') reports regularly circulated throughout schools and the city hall. There was one circulating today at the elementary school I visited. Roughly summarised, its contents were as follows: a man was seen walking near the school grounds this afternoon.
Even yours truly may have been the subject of one of these reports earlier this year, when warnings were circulated that there were several sightings of man seen walking around the neighborhood at dusk. Which is when I take my walks, and the Japanese suffer from a righteous inability to identify my biological sex. You get the picture.)
That will be all.
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on 2006-02-09 02:48 pm (UTC)Yeah, we get that a lot around my school. And then a bunch of the teachers go out and walk around the block and make sure it looks safe.
Then again, we've also had guys try to convince girls leaving school to get in their cars not half a block from the school gate, and further away, and also one case where a guy actually tried to GRAB a girl and PULL her into his car, so...
I guess it goes with the territory of being an all girl's school in downtown Osaka/big city.
Oh, but there was the time when a gaijin guy was taking pictures from the little side street which passes the sad excuse for an athletic ground of the girls practicing sports after school which became a big issue where they thought a guy was going to try to kidnap a girl, and I said...well, he's probably just a tourist and wanted to take pictures of 'real' Japanese sports practice, as opposed to everything he's probably watched a bunch in anime to show to his other otaku friends back home. "OMG guys look! REAL JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRLS! Playing SOFTBALL!! ::snortsnortlaughnosebleed::"
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on 2006-02-10 02:18 pm (UTC)PS: why would a gaijin try to case & kidnap a Japanese girl in broad daylight when he could a) just buy an Asian child in China for pennies or b) own one for the price of some brand name グーズ？no subject
on 2006-02-09 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-02-10 02:14 pm (UTC)But other than that, total lurk mode when I'm on my walks down the brightly lit, public avenues.
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on 2006-02-10 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-02-11 02:24 pm (UTC)