My response to the JP cops that stop me:
"Sumimasen... Nihongo taberemasen..."
(Sorry... Japanese eat can not...)
And other gibbering in a western accent and they wave me past. I usually get stopped around 2am during my cycling commute home. Makes sense I guess when the last trains have stopped and lots of bicycles get "borrowed".
Nice. I've been stopped as well. The most recent time it was raining and I had just been tossed off my bike at a fast speed. Shortly thereafter a cop stopped me, and while pondering how I would explain my situation in nihongo, he called in the bike ID, and as soon as he saw the blood all over me he let me go pretty quickly.
And other gibbering in a western accent and they wave me past. I usually get stopped around 2am during my cycling commute home. Makes sense I guess when the last trains have stopped and lots of bicycles get "borrowed".