Comments on: Japanese man lives in Mexico City airport http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 11:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Paul Raven http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-337925 Paul Raven Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-337925 Mayagrafix - I remember by time in Mexico with great fondness, it's a beautiful country filled with amazing people. That said, the one part of it I really wouldn't want to see again is the airport of El D.F... that guy must be pretty keen not to go back home to be still sitting there. Either that or the taxi hustlers scared him so bad he didn't dare leave... Mayagrafix – I remember by time in Mexico with great fondness, it’s a beautiful country filled with amazing people. That said, the one part of it I really wouldn’t want to see again is the airport of El D.F… that guy must be pretty keen not to go back home to be still sitting there. Either that or the taxi hustlers scared him so bad he didn’t dare leave…

]]> By: Halloween Jack http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338451 Halloween Jack Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338451 Condolences in advance to the people who have to share an airplane cabin with him on the flight back. Condolences in advance to the people who have to share an airplane cabin with him on the flight back.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-337698 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-337698 In the US or UK he'd be taken to a laboratory and dissected for unusual or antisocial behavior. The fact that he is calm and pleasant would be construed as evidence of his psychopathic nature. It's a good thing for him that he chose to live in a Mexico airport and not an American one. In the US or UK he’d be taken to a laboratory and dissected for unusual or antisocial behavior. The fact that he is calm and pleasant would be construed as evidence of his psychopathic nature. It’s a good thing for him that he chose to live in a Mexico airport and not an American one.

]]> By: Mojave http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-337700 Mojave Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-337700 Does the dude have a job waiting for him back in Tokyo? It's like something from a J.G. Ballard story. Does the dude have a job waiting for him back in Tokyo? It’s like something from a J.G. Ballard story.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-337713 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-337713 http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/30/bbtv-tokyo-through-t.html http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/30/bbtv-tokyo-through-t.html

]]> By: Jesse in Japan http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338243 Jesse in Japan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338243 He probably plans to write a book about it when he returns to Japan. He'll make good money. Hell, it sounds like something a character in a Murakami Haruki novel would do. He probably plans to write a book about it when he returns to Japan. He’ll make good money. Hell, it sounds like something a character in a Murakami Haruki novel would do.

]]> By: janekm http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-337756 janekm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-337756 Perhaps he (believed he) was chased by the Yakuza and figured the safest place would be in an airport outside of Japan. Took the first plane he could get out of Japan and then stayed in the airport. Perhaps he (believed he) was chased by the Yakuza and figured the safest place would be in an airport outside of Japan. Took the first plane he could get out of Japan and then stayed in the airport.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-337762 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-337762 Being There Being There

]]> By: pedro001 http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338283 pedro001 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338283 Doesn't this sound similar to the story of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri">"Sir, Alfred Mehran"</a>, who spent nearly 18 years in the Charles de Gaulle airport in paris? Doesn’t this sound similar to the story of “Sir, Alfred Mehran”, who spent nearly 18 years in the Charles de Gaulle airport in paris?

]]> By: pollyannacowgirl http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338031 pollyannacowgirl Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338031 Why wouldn't he at least try to wash himself? That's what makes me think he is mentally ill. Why wouldn’t he at least try to wash himself? That’s what makes me think he is mentally ill.

]]> By: mayagrafix http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-337781 mayagrafix Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-337781 This is a real hoot to say the least for me. Non withstanding any comparison to the tom hanks / steven spielberg movie "the terminal", this Japanese dude could not have picked a better airport for the task.ut I live in the southern part of Mejico, and avoid the city of Mexico like the plague. But only because it has become a mega city with mega problems, the hommies are real nice and polite, and the weather used to be primo. Once upon a time the DF (as its know here) was a real dream spot akin to L.A. So this guy picked the one place on earth were destitute is a social class (maybe India also) and the socialist background of the government (from the 1910 revolution) gives him all kinds of advantages. He is making a statement about what was and what is now, how the social gains have lost to modern capitalization and the authorities cannot do one iota about it. His visa expires in march. Ha ha! Muchos kudos to airport man 2008. !viva mexico! This is a real hoot to say the least for me. Non withstanding any comparison to the tom hanks / steven spielberg movie “the terminal”, this Japanese dude could not have picked a better airport for the task.ut

I live in the southern part of Mejico, and avoid the city of Mexico like the plague. But only because it has become a mega city with mega problems, the hommies are real nice and polite, and the weather used to be primo. Once upon a time the DF (as its know here) was a real dream spot akin to L.A.

So this guy picked the one place on earth were destitute is a social class (maybe India also) and the socialist background of the government (from the 1910 revolution) gives him all kinds of advantages. He is making a statement about what was and what is now, how the social gains have lost to modern capitalization and the authorities cannot do one iota about it. His visa expires in march. Ha ha!

Muchos kudos to airport man 2008. !viva mexico!

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338040 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338040 folks, he's just a bum. If you met him in Tokyo with a hundred like him, you wouldn't even notice. He has his story like us all. Kudos to him for getting a ticket together and doing something different. I suspect he's having a better time of it than if a Mexican bum somehow got himself to Narita.... (now where did I put that...) folks, he’s just a bum. If you met him in Tokyo with a hundred like him, you wouldn’t even notice.
He has his story like us all. Kudos to him for getting a ticket together and doing something different. I suspect he’s having a better time of it than if a Mexican bum somehow got himself to Narita…. (now where did I put that…)

]]> By: Antinous http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-337789 Antinous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-337789 That voice-over was painful. Are they sending journalists to a lab where they remove all normal inflection from their voices and make them sound like robots? That voice-over was painful. Are they sending journalists to a lab where they remove all normal inflection from their voices and make them sound like robots?

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338045 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338045 http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-OHdLIw_I (much better subtitled) http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-OHdLIw_I

(much better subtitled)

]]> By: nerdkiller http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-337790 nerdkiller Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-337790 I don't like people from Japan. I don’t like people from Japan.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338046 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338046 @6 - Destitute is a social class in America too, it's just kept hidden from the public eye out of shame. I'd imagine it's a social class in most countries, regardless of their level of development. @6 – Destitute is a social class in America too, it’s just kept hidden from the public eye out of shame. I’d imagine it’s a social class in most countries, regardless of their level of development.

]]> By: misshallelujah http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338304 misshallelujah Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338304 @18 -- I had the exact same thought about Murakami Haruki! @18 — I had the exact same thought about Murakami Haruki!

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-337816 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-337816 's ok, they don't like you either ‘s ok, they don’t like you either

]]> By: BastardNamban http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338347 BastardNamban Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338347 Ah, this guy. I saw him on TV here today, they did a Japanese interview with him- he's made friends with terminal workers, and NHK too kept drawing similarities between him and Tom Hanks in Terminal. Go to parks in Tokyo, especially Shibuya, I remember, and you'll find plenty of homeless. This guy looks just like them, but he never gave a reason for staying in his Japanese interview either. He's really popular there, though, and only the embassy seems to have a dislike for him- the terminal staff almost love the guy, and he signs autographs, and takes pictures with people. There has to be a reason why he doesn't want to return- my guess would be yakuza problems too, but it's just as possible he lost his job. He could also just feel overburdened and disalussioned with Japanese social life, and is taking an international hiatus. Ah, this guy. I saw him on TV here today, they did a Japanese interview with him- he’s made friends with terminal workers, and NHK too kept drawing similarities between him and Tom Hanks in Terminal.

Go to parks in Tokyo, especially Shibuya, I remember, and you’ll find plenty of homeless. This guy looks just like them, but he never gave a reason for staying in his Japanese interview either. He’s really popular there, though, and only the embassy seems to have a dislike for him- the terminal staff almost love the guy, and he signs autographs, and takes pictures with people.

There has to be a reason why he doesn’t want to return- my guess would be yakuza problems too, but it’s just as possible he lost his job. He could also just feel overburdened and disalussioned with Japanese social life, and is taking an international hiatus.

]]> By: hobomike http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338356 hobomike Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338356 So aside from looking like a prepubescent manga-girl with bad teeth, this is another way to get famous in Japan. Great. Maybe I'll try and get back my citizenship. Manasamagambatte! So aside from looking like a prepubescent manga-girl with bad teeth, this is another way to get famous in Japan. Great. Maybe I’ll try and get back my citizenship. Manasamagambatte!

]]> By: pedro001 http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338370 pedro001 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338370 Some of you might remember this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri 18 years at Charles de Gaulle. Vive la France! Some of you might remember this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri

18 years at Charles de Gaulle. Vive la France!

]]> By: pedro001 http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338378 pedro001 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338378 Oops, disregard my last comment. It's the same as #19. There are two of us. Oops, disregard my last comment. It’s the same as #19. There are two of us.

]]> By: mistervega http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338143 mistervega Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338143 @8 - awww, c'mon dude they have a big bowl of fugu waiting for you. baka yaro. @8 – awww, c’mon dude they have a big bowl of fugu waiting for you. baka yaro.

]]> By: querent http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338157 querent Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338157 takuan is my hero takuan is my hero

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/11/24/japanese-man-lives-i.html#comment-338171 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-338171 what've I done now? what’ve I done now?

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