And so it came to pass, that when I was in Tokyo before I ran into these two guys, one was named Hosono and the other was self-named "Asakusa" (writer's pseudonym).  I quite took to them, for we all loved dancing, certain types of music, manga and anime, academics, science fiction and stories, and roleplaying.  Hell, with that sort of hobby lineup it's hard not to be my friend.  Anyway, I talked a lot to Hosono.  I even went to a game convention that he orchestrated.  After I left Japan, I didn't contact him until the next year, when I wrote him all this stuff and sent him a bunch of pictures.  A few weeks later, I had a 6-page letter that I couldn't easily read and a mix tape.  Yep, Hosono was still my friend.
So I contacted him when I arrived in Gunma.  Soon after we worked it out so that he could come up for a couple days.  He's very busy these days.  This is his 4th year of college, and he has to write a final thesis for his major (Modern Japanese Literature) that apparently has to be the size and quality of your average 400 page book.  In Japan, 400 pages of Kanji  is like maybe 600-800 pages in English.  I've seen Tom Clancy novels translated down to the size of a thumb-thick 3.5 inch floppy disk.  Quite busy.  But he had the time, so we made some plans.
Basically all we did for his stay was talk.  We talked and talked and talked, while we were awake, 3-5 hours a night once we were in bed.  He knows some key English phrases, but for the most part we spoke in Japanese.  We shared stories, talked about our lives, our interests, religion, all sorts of things.
Hosono's quite a guy.  He stands at what appears to be 6' 4" and 120 pounds.  He dances like a freak.  He plays bass guitar in a punk band.  He owns more manga and novels than I can comfortably comprehend.  But in many ways, beyond just hobbies, we are very similar, I think.
Anyway, there wasn't that much of a story to his visit.  Save one time we were talking about pornography and he went off about this guy he knows that goes to a university in Gunma who's an Anal Fuck freak (or, as Hosono says, "Aenaru Fakku");  this guy owns Aenaru Fakku movies from Japan, he owns nasty Aenaru Fakku movies from Denmark, he can draw manga very well, but the kind of manga he likes to draw is Aenaru Fakku manga.  He draws lots of this kind of manga and then sells it at an enormous profit at manga conventions.
There was no moral to the above story.  It was just so strange hearing my friend say the word "Anal fuck" so many times.  Not something I was used to hearing from my other friends.