Quote:
Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Any foreigner who think that he/she has ANYTHING resembling anonymity in Japan is deluded themselves. Within 24 hours of moving into a building, every shop keeper, street vendor, housewife, garbage man, police man, and even the taxi drivers, within a 3km+ radius know exactly where you live, where you work and what you do. There have been many times when I've been trying to get home from somewhere relatively local, by taking a different bus and looking at the route map, that some stranger will come up to me and say 'Excuse me, but if you're trying to get home, you need to take the #XYZ bus from #ABC station.' I long ago gave up being surprised...
Stitchawl
|
Wow! The book does touch on that a bit, but this guy was meant to have had plastic surgery and he was already half Japanese favouring the Asian side of his parentage. He also had false identification. However, given that he seemed to continue to go by the same name he had before he tried to lose himself in Tokyo, I couldn't really follow the logic.