Yesterday Matthew, John Jo - a british tenant staying with us, and I went down to the anime and electronics district.

On our way down we passed two police officers on bikes who rode passed us. They did a double-take and talked to each other. “What do you think? Should we? Yeah, we have the time. Don’t have to meet the others for donuts for another 15minutes.”

They followed us across the street and had us all show our bicycle registrations. Which proved to be somewhat of a problem as I didn’t own my bike but was borrowing from our landlady. And seeing as she technically didn’t own it either as the tenant who owned it prior didn’t transfer the license when he moved out, it kinda was an annoying situation. After consulting with the dictionary to look up “landlord” and “borrow” we were able to pass the test and move on.

Apparently it’s more difficult to get your bike licensed here then it is to get our cars licensed back in the states. And not having your bicycle registered is a big deal. I believe it’s punishable by jail time. As a foreigner I’d just be deported and would no longer be welcomed in Japan again. Oh well.

“Hey Justin, why are you back so early?”
“Yeah… I got deported because I didn’t have my bicycle registered.”
“Doh!”

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