Re: Running in Japan
gh14tq5@yahoo.com wrote:
> Since I've been in Japan, I've become extremely lazy about exercising.
> So, I've been thinking of taking up jogging. I know foreigners are
> suppose to carry their foreign registration card at all times, but when
> jogging there just really isn't anywhere to put it. Any foreigners in
> this newsgroup jog in Japan. If so, what do you do about your card?
> I've thought about just leaving it home since I've never been asked for
> it before, but I figure that would just be asking for trouble.
It _may_ depend on where you live, but out here on the Tokyo-Kawasaki
border the only things I ever carry are my house key and 2kg carrying
weights. If you ever do get stopped and your torokusho becomes an
issue, the cops will take you home to get your ID and, if your SO is a
Wajin they'll just ask her to vouch for her gaigin house pet and warn
her about letting you out without a collar.
The practice _has_ caused some strange incidents, but never with the
authorities -- like the time I found a naked woman who had been bound
hand and foot with electrical wire and then strangled in the graveyard I
cut through to get to the public park's running track. Persuading a
temple priest to give his prayers a rest for five minutes and let me
call the cops from inside the temple was one of the more strange events
I have ever experienced at six in the morning. The cops asked for my
name and address and never asked me for ID. They just wanted to know
when I found her, if I'd touched her, which footprints and fingerprints
might have been mine and where did I get the training to know she was
dead and know about how long since she'd been murdered before I called
it in.
Of course, I don't recommend murdering a 25-year-old OL just so you can
find her and get on the good side of the cops ...
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