We tend to be night owls, or early morning owls rather, and jet lag only compounds it. We were up at 2 the other morning, and decided to go out to one of the few 24 hour grocery stores nearby.
Since I'm not much of a shopper, I was outside walking around and saw a dozen police officers in front of their area headquarters. They didn't detain or divert me, so I walked on thinking they must be up to some sort of training exercise -- they didn't seem anxious or agitated. But later, when I returned, they were putting someone in a police car and there were 6 or 8 reporters around, and a news truck with a satellite dish on top.
Again, they didn't divert or detain me and I walked past again as one of the reporters took a picture of the police car as it departed with its back seat occupant.
So, if you see a dark blob in the corner of some Japanese crime story photo, you might as well assume it's me.
Later that same day we went to a convenience store, one of the few around that has a parking lot. As arrived, we saw someone drive up in a Cadillac Escalade, one of the new ones that's the size of a Suburban. My wife, Miwako, marveled that anyone in Japan even has such a car, as tight as space can be. I mentioned that this is a $50,000 car in the US, and probably 3 times that here.
As we left the store though, Miwako told me that she'd figured it out. Inside she'd seen a Japanese TV personality, and realized it was he who had driven up in the Escalade.
So, imagine that, two brushes with fame in the same day, and we've not yet been here a week. This really is an adobencha.
Oh, and the next day she saw the same guy on TV and pointed him out to me.
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