Sucks you were played by that oyaji but at least you’ve got some interesting stories out of it, and a new insight on how your life would have been had you made different choices.

Plus, if you take a closer look, you’ll find the only person who has yet to regain its honor from all this is that crook taxi driver. In the end he just sold out for 1.5 mil. Kakko waru~

I would agree that virtues such as honor or fairness don’t weight much when you’re in the joint but still you should get a nice feeling about how you handled things

Anyway, that was a nice read. Thanks for sharing your experience.

If you haven’t read the research in this area I strongly recommend you do. It’s very interesting and completely dispels the myths around alcohol which are so ingrained they are considered ‘common sense’.

PS: You guys probably did the right thing as, yeah, the cops looking at a couple of African guys as you say may not be too friendly.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING…Is all I can say. You are extremely lucky given the fact that you had the concern and support of everyone you know…damn! (sorry I am not used to cursing) but this is just very out of our world today. In the case of an unlucky fella, …hhhmmmm…. for starters, the wife will dump or divorce his ‘drunken and irresponsible’ behind right back to his home country, get a big shame on you for the main course and serve you the divorce papers as desert and god knows sometimes the amount of money as settlements that follow. I am a foreigner married to a Japanese and can speak expertly about the nature (some good and some bad..whatever) of the people to a certain extent. THANK GOD you are fine and even had the courage to record every little detail (which some people find very hard to appreciate) so that others might learn. In that state not even the self-rightous-wanna-be-attention-seeker Monty using a language that potrays his ignorance as much as branding his personality as a low-life-good-for-nothing…would not have had the balls or sores to pen down a few notes.
Take care George and my special acknowledgement to all who have also made some confessions.

I had a not too good experince once with a friend and a Jap. girl (the girl friend of another friend whom I begged (stupid decission I realized) to transport my friend and I in my car (as she always does) since I had had a couple of drinks myself and couldn’t drive so was my friend. After a few kilometers, this girl started asking us to pay her for the services…not very surprising? Why this time? Its not like she will also contribute for the gas since we were all going in the same direction. Believe it or not but when I am drunk, my sixth sense is always in operation. This conversation started in an outskirt area that was dark and with very few houses. BAM! Imagine our luck…two africans (gaijins) stinking of alcohol with a 22 year old japanese girl in my car at 2am along the most suspicious area of all places. That was the scenario going up in my head and that was the case the law enforcement officers will build against us. My friend did not say much as he knew little Japanese but it was obvious that he wanted to hit the girl (with much influence from alcohol I guess). After a little show of suprise to her request and possible refusal to comply, the girl stopped the car in the middle of nowhere, took out her cell phone and promised to call ‘keisatsu’ that we brought her out there to rape her… Well, sometimes its supprising how a situation like that can neutralize alcohol. Many of you are already running down a series of options on how to handle a case like that but I guess we are all different. There was no need for further arguements as we gave her ￥20.000 as settlement. The next I heard was that the said girl is sometimes attacked by a mental illness which I did not care to find out. The next time she met us again, she smiled and acted as though the drama that early hours of dawn never took place. I kindly (in an even pious fashion) told her not to call my name, look or even smile anywhere 100 meters from where I am.

Beware! As a foreigner in Japan and maybe in other countries, your chances of getting away with any thing whether you are guilty or not is quite small. This is not about the Japanese people but some individuals who are Japanese and find it hard to accept other people in their society.

I agree that it could have been worse, but humans make mistakes- and I dont think that having your freedom taken away from you for whatever days is deserved. so Monty- we make mistakes, but does not mean he should have to go through all that. You dont realise how emotional you can get, or how mental etc until you are suddenly stripped of your freedom in a foreign country. No one said it was the worse thing in the world.

What did the guy actually wind up paying?

Still think the it was the guys own fault though. I mean the driver totally set him up and then like a total fool he turned himself in.

Duh….