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Right now, thieves seem to rule. There has been a great deal of looting. Businessmen are standing by their stores to prevent them from being ransacked. But most citizens are staying put behind closed doors...
...Like pretty-boy Eiji, Hiroaki Shioya roams the streets looking for runaways, but for very different reasons: he's an officer in Tokyo's police youth-crimes unit. With his slicked-back hair and dark suit, Shioya blends in with the businessmen out for the night. But as he turns a corner, a clutch of men in garish jogging suits standing around a black Benz start murmuring. One of them begins to tail Shioya, mumbling into a cell phone. Shioya sighs. "All the Mob guys know my face around here," he says...
After dark, take a subway or taxi to Shinjuku station and walk east to Kabuki-cho, the red-light district, where tipsy businessmen and fashionable coeds frolic alongside transvestite hookers. The area is Disney-safe, but if it's trouble you want, look for a square bordered by cineplexes where a boxer lets patrons pummel him for a charge. From there, walk west to Green Plaza Shinjuku, across from Seibu Shinjuku station. The entrance is cheesy, but the 10-story, 24-hour spa is clean, respectable and welcomes foreigners. It features a gem on its roof: the rotenburo, or outdoor...
...internal threats. While Crown Prince Abdullah, 78, has been instituting economic reforms and trimming perks like free air travel from the estimated 30,000 members of the extended clan, the public still gripes about rampant official corruption, ranging from taking commissions on arms deals to muscling in on private businessmen. Sclerosis in royal succession is also a problem: because tradition hands the reign from one son of Ibn Saud to another, the current King, 80, and the next three in line are all well past Western retirement...
...which another traveler misheard as "Bosnian terrorist," he and another Indian flying with him were booted off a Singapore Airlines flight preparing to leave for Hong Kong. Northwest ground staff refused to board three Iraqi-born Americans on a flight from Minneapolis to Salt Lake City, and two Pakistani businessmen were marched off a US Airways Florida-Baltimore shuttle when the pilot refused to take off with them on board and suggested they take a train...