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Thanks to the excesses of last week`s many festivals, short sleep, beers in the evening and coffees in the morning and not excluding young school children demanding I shake their dirty sweaty hands, I have come down with a bout of influenza.

This has warranted a trip to the hospital for the first time today. I heard when you go to a hospital in Japan, you have to keep on taking off your shoes and replacing them at regular intervals with different types of slippers. I didn`t suffer from that but I did suffer the indignity of a urine test. As I was providing my sample I thought to myself I`ve got a cold I`m not an athlete suspecting of taking steroids. In the end the urine test seemed irrelevent and they didn`t refer to it again.

There followed a five minute inspection by the doctor in a mixture of Japanese and English attended by the wonderfully kind woman that is Reiko`s mother who helped fill in kanji-laden forms and answer some of the questions. After that, they gave me enough drugs to sink a baby elephant. No wonder they live so long in Japan.

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