Enormously-Endowed "Outlaw Latino" in Tokyo

[Mulboyne]

The 15-part-including-epilogue Tokyo Note Left by Kizer Ohno

...Neon kanji. Street cracks. Stone walkway. Taxis. Ghost faces. Street lights. Basement booze. Claustrophobic alleys. Soul food. Hand-out. Yellow jackets. Boxes. Homeless apartments. DVD porn. Pachinko parlors. Whore worn walkers. Orange hair. Vixens on bicycles. Subway mouths. Stacked matchbox stores. Cellphones growing out of ears. People growing out of cellphones. Smiles. Frowns. Stares. Silence desecrated. Train tracks. Loitering lean. KFC. Pictures of Japanese meals. Dolled up disasters. Chopstick lingo. Female boots. Wrong way walking. Pacifist police. Right side steering wheel. Motortrikes. Scooter delivery. Old people. Young people. Alone people. Together people. White stripes. Tunnel walk. Color fading into color. Hidden sky. Eye candy in orgasmic spurts...

...As I reflect back upon my two week adventure in Japan, I am filled with a sense of disbelief. Was I there? Did this happen? Was it all a dream? Is this story fact or fiction or both? This trip, God willing, is just the beginning...Now, I have high hopes of getting in the JET program and such...ah, high hopes...When I initially planned my trip to Tokyo a feeling like there was something for me there pervaded my soul. There was something there for me but I didn't take it with me. I left a piece of myself in Japan...without a doubt I'm returning to go get it back.

[Mulboyne]

Here's some more online fiction. Eugene Woodbury's "Tokyo South". Slight contrast to the above effort. This one is centred on the work of a Mormon mission.

Thackeray's first and only baptism in Kunitachi came on a referral from the Tokyo North Mission. Her name was Nobuko Watabe. She was twenty-three years old college student, a slight, plain girl. She lived in West Tokyo, but attended school in Chiba prefecture. Thackeray met her the second Sunday in July in the lobby of the Kunitachi ward building. She was, in fact, waiting for him.

"Ohayo gozaimasu, Thackeray Choro," she said. They shook hands.

"Good morning. Do I know you?"

"My name is Watabe Nobuko. I want to join the Mormon Church."

Good, snappy dialogue:

Thackeray kept the Book of Mormons in a drawer neatly stacked behind his socks. He wrote out a receipt for six thousand yen and handed Gordon fifteen books.

"You're one careful D.L."

"Show me a careless D.L. and I'll show you a snookered senkyoshi."

"Ha! I like that."

[electrocat]

seems like that guy had a good vacation.. but seemed to be a bit ass-hole-ish to those women

[Jizmatik]

That's because I am an asshole. Cheers and thanks for the mention.

[Mulboyne]

Not strictly online fiction since it was actually published in 1888 but here is the full text of "Yone Santo: A Child of Japan" by Edward H. House. I gave up on it quite quickly. mind you.

The novel is very lively and readable, but unsensational...As in most romantic novels, however, "Japan" is represented by young women; two of the characters are the sole surviving heirs of great Samurai families, and well aware of the masculine past which they are barely able to represent. Both young women are spotlessly virtuous and wise. However, the heroine's grandmother and aunts are cruel women who make of her a Cinderella and eventually marry her as they see fit. The two young women's fathers are depicted briefly as men who, having lost their income and status, suffer nobly and die, one in battle and one by hara-kiri. The only male Japanese character who has an opportunity for dialogue is Yone's husband, a rough, lower-caste boatmaker, whose crudeness is emphasized again and again. The West is represented by three men: Doctor Charwell, the narrator; Arthur Milton, a rich American idler who falls in love with Yone; and Mr. Roberts, an "underbred" Yokohama tradesman and Scots widower whose "girl," his sex partner/housekeeper/babysitter, is promoted to wife when he realizes she is a descendent of a fine old family. There are however plenty of Western women in the story, in particular four cruel and narrow-minded missionaries or teachers. By way of contrast, Marion Gibson, a Bostonian missionary, is presented as intelligent and capable of understanding and appreciating Japanese virtues.

This is one of the links on the "Jap doll" page that Taro found.

[Currawong]

Goddamit, I came back to FG and as soon as I read a single thread, I clicked on the Tokyo South link, read the WHOLE THING, then two more translations on the site, then started hunting for more 12 Kingdoms translations, then read all of those as well.

Ok, I need to get out more.