Police academy!

Was starting to lose my sanity after a marathon of editing yesterday. So late in the afternoon decided to take a short break and do some cross training. A cross between editing and trail running! There is a small mountain near the house here called “Sunset hill” with some good views of the city.

Decided to try and get there for the sunset around 6pm. Which brings me to the title of this post. Jozankei village has been totally overrun by the Japanese police. Everywhere you look, every parking lot is full of cars and buses and trucks all police.


The city is crawling with officers from all over japan. I heard there are close to 4000 police in our little town right now. Why? Of course the build up for the G8 summit in Toyako next month. You would think these guys were here to train for a marathon, they are running all over the place. In groups of two to ten they are running all over. They even were running up the trail i was on and that is not an easy trail head to find. If there are any ladies out there that would like to meet Japan’s finest this is the place to be right now. I also hear that the police don’t let anyone clean the rooms while they stay at the hotels for close to a month. I guess they must leave their guns laying around the room…. Since the only people with handguns in Japan are the police and a few Yakuza I guess you could say right now Jozankei has the highest concentration of guns per square kilometer in the country.

I remember when Jamie Lynn was here two years ago going around making some graffiti art under the bridges etc., I am glad he is not here now, would get busted by 4000 cops straight away!

Editing continues, coming along at a good pace now. Trying to get to the titling and sound work by early next week.