読んでみるニュース

今日のヤフー(アメリカ)のトップ記事を読んでみました。

「日本人男性、メキシコの空港に３ヶ月近く居座る」

どうも、日本人観光客がメキシコの空港の乗り継ぎターミナルに居座り続けて、
有名人になっているようです。

地元のTV局からも連日取材される日々。

しかし、居座り続ける理由を本人（野原さん）に聞いてみても、
「理由はない」「何故ここにいるのかわからない」
という、意味不明な回答らしいです。

なかなかおもしろい記事ですが、問題は日本のメディアに取り上げられるかです。
日本の恥（個人的には英雄ですが）は、日本国内に持ち込まれるのでしょうか？


MEXICO CITY – Hiroshi Nohara is on a layover at the Mexico City airport. It has lasted almost three months, and he has no plans to leave.

For reasons he can't explain, the Japanese man has been in Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez International Airport since Sept. 2, surviving off donations from fast-food restaurants and passengers and sleeping in a chair.

At first, he frightened passengers, and airport authorities asked the Japanese Embassy to investigate why the foul-smelling man refused to leave. Now, he's somewhat of a celebrity, capturing Mexico's collective imagination with nearly daily television news reports on his life at the food court.

Tourists stop to pose with him for photographs or get an autograph.

The Tokyo native flew into Mexico with a tourist visa and a return ticket home, but he never left the airport. In an interview Thursday alongside the airport McDonald's, he said he had no motive for his extended stay and doesn't know how much longer he'll remain.

"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."