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We get a lot of cold calls at our house here in Japan. Far more anyway than I ever did in England. On our phone, we can see what the number is and if we don’t recognise it or it’s a local number, Reiko will tell me to answer it.

I”ve covered this theme before in Do I look like S.-san? Now **** off before I call the police

I actually throw them off guard with my Japanese, “Yes?” and then a few seconds later we both discover we have no idea what the other one is saying and one of us hangs up.

You see there are advantages to not knowing Japanese.