Last night there were signs up at the hotel alerting us to the fact that several Major League Baseball stars were staying at the hotel and we were not to bother them, or be asked to leave. No problem there, I wouldn’t recognise one if he hit me with his bat and even if I did, last thing I care about is an autograph.

And I forgot to blog it before, but Condi Rice was in our hotel when she visited Japan last week. Quite the high scale place I’ve been staying in.