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can come as a relief. Wandering a dark alley, you are likely to be
more scary as a foreigner than anything native you might encounter.
You can lurch around mostly drunk, if you so choose, and you will
only be acting as the locals do. Few people will mess with you in
that state; they are too busy staggering about and throwing up on the
streets themselves. There are some folks who don't like foreigners;
keep your eyes out and don't provoke any tough guys in nice suits or
the young men who work for them. Police help maintain the social
order in Japan; you'll find that their jobs can extend to helping the
foreigner find lodgings or some obscure building.
folks; people wear appropriate outfits, with great attention to detail.
Witness not just the articulate style of some young people, but the
colorful and precise outfits of service personnel around Tokyo. This is
helpful for the foreign traveller; you don't have to wander through a
store wondering who works there; anyone wearing an apron is likely
ready to receive your question. Accordingly, most of the folks who
might mean trouble for you are dressed like porno thugs - slightly
outrageous style, compared to the ubiquitous black suited salarymen.
Gangsters in fine silks (Yakuza) and sweatsuits and young men with
shaven eyebrows might in fact be friendly but at least you should be
able to read what place they have in society by their clothes before
you decide to flag them down. There are some Japanese kids frontin'
American gangsta style: baggy jeans, gold chains, sport shirts,
cornrow hair; it's not clear that they back up their thug appearance
with any real-life gaffling.
mediated clarity? You will find vending machines in Japan selling a
wider variety of goods than they do elsewhere - toiletries, food,
drinks, pornography to name a few. Over five million vending ma-
chines on this small island means you are never more than a few
continue schooling on through high school.