Japanese man sets up home in Mexico airport food court

[Celebration]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/3509614/Japanese-man-sets-up-home-in-Mexico-airport-food-court.html

"I do not understand why I am here," Mr Nohara, who is originally from Tokyo, told a local television station through an interpreter. "I don't have any reasons."

Mr Nohara holds a valid visa and local authorities admit they have no reason to force him to leave. All they can do is wait for the paperwork to expire in March.

In the meantime, Mr Nohara has become famous and is regularly featured on local television.

He sleeps in a chair in the airport's food court, surviving off food given to him by vendors keen to see their merchandising promoted in his TV interviews.

Passengers who recognise him also help him out by buying him burgers and coffee. In return, he is happy to pose for a photograph or sign an autograph.

[Boojatta]

1. Was there a revolution in Japan?

His story is similar to that of the 2004 film "The Terminal," in which an Eastern European man, played by Tom Hanks, gets trapped at New York's JFK International Airport by revolution in his homeland and is repeatedly denied permission to leave by immigration officials.

We need a movie about somebody who watches a movie and then tries to imitate it. Ideally, the character in the movie would be pathetic enough to avoid encouraging anybody to actually imitate him or her.