This past Saturday night I was relaxing at home after a day spent out and about, when I heard a commotion outside. I went to the window and saw two punks on the street below shouting at a young guy on a scooter who was waiting at the stoplight on the corner. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but they seemed to be upset about something. Suddenly one of punks shoved the guy off of his scooter and then punched him in the eye when he tried to get back on.

It seemed apparent that the guy on the scooter wasn’t going to fight back and was probably going to get his ass beat, so in the most intimidating angry-Japanese-man voice that I could muster, I shouted down, “Oi, nani yatten da yo!” (roughly, “hey, what the hell is going on?!”). The punks must have heard me, because they backed off and the young guy quickly got back on his scooter and rode off.

At that point Judy rushed into the room to see why exactly I was shouting out the window in my most intimidating angry-Japanese-man voice. As I began to tell her what I had witnessed, I pointed down to where the action had taken place and was surprised to see the two punks now standing in the middle of the road blocking traffic. A Mercedes was stopped in front of them, and the punks’ arms were up in the air in the universal “what’s-up-bitch?” pose. Suddenly, one of the punks went to the driver’s side and yanked open the door, apparently to go after the driver. Once again mustering my angry-Japanese-man voice, I shouted down, “OOOIII!!!“. That seemed to do the trick, because the two punks backed away from the Mercedes and (peculiarly) mounted a single bicycle and pedalled away.

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After our ordeal with the typhoon in Okinawa, Judy and I took advantage of the sunshine the following weekend and headed to the beach in Zushi, Kanagawa to soak up some rays while we had the chance. Some candid photos from that day are below. (Regrettably, the many women in bikinis were forced to go unphotographed due to the fact that Judy would have drowned me in the sea had she seen my camera pointed in their direction.)