I don`t know why I called this blog Simon goes undercover in Japan. I mean I stick out like a black man at a Klu Klux Klan meeting. I`m a foot taller than most of them, fair skinned and dressed like a stereotypical American backpacker in T-shirt, shorts and sandals, I can`t pass for a Japanese person. When I walk in the street, I often get double looks as if it is incredible that there are people in this world who aren`t Japanese. When I am in the onsen bathing, I get looks of incredulity from children as if I am from another planet and looks of bewilderment from the older and oldest of men that I found out that there were places like those and inwardly swearing to slit the throat of the one who betrayed the secret.
At least when I lived in France and Germany, I had to open my mouth before my guilty secret could be revealed by my foreign accent and difficulty with advanced grammer and vocabulary. Here even five year old children aren`t fooled. So I am going to change this blog`s name. Any suggestions welcome.
Today Reiko bought me a suit as congratulations and for my new job teaching English. I`ll be the best dressed teacher if not the best teacher there at least. Pictures to come? After that she went to Namba to get HEAT magazine from HMV whilst her mum and I went on a tram to have a look at a famous nearby temple. Her mum is funny and always happy and fun to be with but Reiko`s still safe. There is a famous bridge over a large pond in the temple there which rises and falls really steeply. There should hopefully be a picture of part of the temple below and there will be some above.
I recently had my hair cut a few days ago for the first time since June and the first one in Japan. I was a bit scared of letting them near my hair as the fashions (which seem to suit the Japanese well) aren`t for me. It only cost 1000 yen and was over in 10 minutes. Milestones.
There is a TV program which is like an adult Blue Peter and tells you how to make boomerangs out of postcards and party poppers out of cellophane. It has a website which is in Japanese but if you translate it with Babel or something, it should be all right. It is here. Yay.
Last night I watched Kissing Jessica Stein which is alright. I read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and I`m on the excellent The Three Musketeers. I have also read every Sherlock Holmes story there is. They are excellent. Do I want a medal? Maybe I do.
The reason you get stared at is because you don’t belong there. As far as those kids who stare at you go, their intolerance of you is nothing compared to how I would treat you, if I saw a white boy doing something wrong, ie have japanese girlfriend, or bathing at an an onsen, I’d beat the shit out of him and then let the Uyoku kick his ass too. Don’t worry I’m a big guy so you’ll be evenly matched–rather you’ll be overmatched as you’re a minority in every sense of the word over there and most of country doesn’t take kindly to foreigners especially those who don’t know their place.
How they let you in the onsen is beyond me as most places don’t allow fuckin’ gaijin. I don’t know where you delusional white people get the idea that you belong everywhere, you people don’t own jack shit. I mean you can’t even control your own country, America. In 10 years you honkys are going to be the minority in America (you already are in 6 states) and probably the UK. If I were you I’d be concerned about my own country being overrun by immigrants not the way people perceive you in a country where you do not belong under any circumstance.
As far as that clueless disgrace, yellow cab wife you have, she needs to be beat to her senses, literally. Any woman that sells out her race is sub-human, and needs to disappear. There’s a reason why Japan has an insignificant non-asian population (~.2%) and keeps you scumbags confined to a few areas (Roppongi), you people are fucking worthless bargain basement trash that try to leach off all other countries. Remember no matter what you do, learn the language, marry a clueless japanese yellow cab, etc, you will never be completely accepted in Japan, go back to where you belong before you have NO COUNTRY left to identify with.
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