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Project Hitchhiker is the online creative outlet of Mike H.

Mike’s adventures have taken him across 3 continents, including driving a motorcycle for 6 months across Southeast Asia, hitchhiking across Canada and Japan, and walking 1000 miles along the coastline of Nova Scotia. Mike’s passions are music, travel and motorcycles (in that order). Mike’s dislikes include writing about himself in the third person. This site is a collection of his travels, stories and adventures in lifestyle design.

Tangles with a Japanese Mafia Boss: A True Story

Filed Under (Japan, Stories) by projecthitchhiker on 17-09-2008

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Yakuza girl

Jules is the most Japanese white guy I know. Not your predictable J-pop loving, Anime-watching, AV Idol-obsessed Japanophile. No, Jules is the exception to the rule. After four years of living in the Kanto region, he speaks near-perfect Japanese, and uses a dialect unique to Osaka – one used by many Japanese comedians. He works at a host club, an industry found only in Japan, where wealthy, lonely women pay exorbitant sums of money to sit and drink with charismatic, fashionable and conversationally skilled young Japanese men…  And one white guy named Jules. All of his co-workers and customers are Japanese and none of them speak any English. He is the antithesis of an ESL teacher in Japan.


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