Brendan Fraser

With English language.

Well, I can understand how I would stand apart in a crowd, but then again, I am tall, and I do look a lot like Brendan Fraser, so I may have attracted some attention here and there.

And interesting to note, if ever I was recognized...

It's anathema for people to approach you in a way that would be frothing or would you please take a selfie or have an autograph, something like that, to much of the population because that would in some way indicate that you'd make the other person uncomfortable or inconvenience them.

And I very often was never, ever approached, although I was clearly approached.

obviously, who I am.

Oh, yeah.

But compare that to any other populous city that I've been to, people will climb into my lap, I mean, at a restaurant or something, basically.

And that just doesn't happen in Japan.

But people were redoubled in how they extended courtesy to me, to one another, to

The notion of burdening someone else with your troubles or your concerns is just not how the way things work in Japan as a cultural mainstay.

Yes.

Who would it be?

A sister.

I'm the fourth of four sons.

And I can recall being a kid when our family lived in Europe.

I was given books that came from the UK because they were printed in English.

And one of them was a book about growing up.

And one of them had a picture that looked a lot, an illustration that looked so much like me and a girl.

And they were depicted as brother and sister.