Japanese Man Lives In Airport For No Reason

Posted by Jill Harness in Odd News, Travel & Places on November 23, 2008 at 1:06 am


It sounds like someone took Tom Hank’s role in Terminal too seriously.

Japanese citizen, Hiroshi Nohara, has decided to live in the Mexico City airport for 3 months and with apparently no reason. Since September 2, his home has been in the terminal and he has survived off food and clothing donations from travelers and airport shops lookin for advertising. In his own words, he claims to have no reason for staying so long:

“I don’t understand why I’m here,” he said through a visiting interpreter originally hired by a television station. “I don’t have a reason.”

He is now a minor celebrity in the city, as his refusal to go home has ignited the city’s imagination. Neither Mexican or Japanese authorities have been able to help persuade him to leave and he may stay put until his visa runs out in Early March.

Link Via Tokyo Mango

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9 comments to "Japanese Man Lives In Airport For No Reason"

  1. anonymous commenter
    November 23rd, 2008 at 2:00 am

    Uh, wasn’t Terminal based on a true story?

  2. ulli
    November 23rd, 2008 at 2:30 am

    That is not the best airport to choice. I could barely handle a layover there.

  3. Patrick B
    November 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 am

    Yep. Terminal was based on the story of Merhan Karimi Messeri who lived in the Charle De Gaule Airport from 1988 to 2006. He now resides in a homeless shelter nd is considered quite insane from his experience.

  4. Evilbeagle
    November 23rd, 2008 at 7:36 am

    Choosing to live in an airport is either insane or incomprehensible genius, and I would vote on the former reason.

  5. liphttam1
    November 23rd, 2008 at 7:51 am

    I could never do that, I hate airport food. It must be tough to stay up with the lights always on. Probabaly noisy as well.

  6. Geekazoid
    November 23rd, 2008 at 9:27 am

    I may be a cynic but I think this man is not insane at all but a caculated guy, doing this for the attention. He admits as much as that he has knows about the movie ‘The Terminal.’ He is already a minor celebrity in Japan. No doubt that in Japan where it seems like anyone and everyone can be a celebrity for the smallest things, he’s already dreaming of the book deals, talk show circuit, and tv/movie deals lining up. He’s laughing all the way to the bank!

  7. Gail Pink
    November 24th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    Um, if someone wants him to leave the airport, how about getting the police or security to arrest him? In this day of hyper-vigilance and concern for safety, why has nobody thought of that? I must be the cleverest person on earth! :)

  8. Rocky Rook
    November 25th, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    Disgusting

  9. Passby
    December 1st, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    I think he just want to get attention..we should ignore him..


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