Originally Posted by
jib71
It's not you he's saluting. It's his colleague in plain clothes, who's been assigned to trail you.
Luckily for him, that assignment requires no particular physical fitness, just a tolerance of smokey Dotour coffee shops.
I just returned from the Dormy Inn Nagoya's public bath, where I witnessed the dreaded "gaijin enters bath completely dry, having not showered, scrubbed, showered, scrubbed, rinsed, rinsed.' This particular fellow happened to be a bear, as well. I cringed as I watched him reach back to scratch (clean?) his bottom.