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Gross indeed, but nobody goes to prison for the food. One trick we developed in our cell was to dump the rice into the hot water (called oyu in Japanese) to warm it up and make it a little easier to swallow. Nobody goes to prison for the food: but there are some unintended benefits to be gained, if you find yourself in jail. Take weight loss, for example. It is also a good chance to go cold turkey and detox your bod of all your chemical dependencies. While I was inside I convinced myself that the ryuuchijou diet was nutritionally balanced because, this being Japan, the authorities wouldn't want anyone going unhealthy on their watch. Perhaps this was an optimistic hope. It didn't take me to long to return to my nutritionally unbalanced ways upon my release. Actually, the first meal I ate after being let out at the end of May 2007 was a microwaved karubonara pasta bento I picked up at a convenience store on the edge of the Keiyo Dori megahighway, on my way home. Pepper, synthetic noodles, raw eggs and bacon... what a change to the tedium of prison fare!
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I don't know if my own recent bout of panic attacks stem from my time inside, but I can fully understand Hilton's claustrophobia. Being in prison feels like you're the inhabitant of some hypothetical two dimensional universe -- everything feels thin, paper thin, with no depth, and totally transparent. . Not exactly free to see Nga just yet, but at least free to start saving for it. By the end of the year I had repaid my debts and accumulated enough capital, to make my flight. Air China was the cheapest option I could afford.
6:30am: Wake up time. Early mornings were always my favorite time in lock up as you were in bed and sleeping serves as a kind of escape. Mind you, if you they brought someone in at 2am it would get so noisy it felt like trying to sleep in a hospital reception room (with no earplugs.) And all those guards marching around keys jangling and boots creaking on the floor... it did my head in. A few seconds before 6:30am, the air-conditioning sprung into life, and shortly afterwards the lights came on. You've got a minute or so to jump to your feet, roll up your bedding, and wait for your turn to carry it all to the store room down the hall. On the way down the corridor, you're supposed to greet other detainees or detainers with an "Ohayo gozaimasu!" ("Good morning!) Within 3 or 4 minutes the police were there putting the cuffs on me. They took me to the Kitazawa Police Station where I was to stay for the next 2 weeks. The police also arrested Menace, the New Zealander.
Menace the TV and porn star on Japanese TV in 2006 |