Dear Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara,

I remember Roppongi before the millennium as a fun place. Now, the four or five times I go there each year disgust me, and if I do manage to fight off the African touts and Chinese massage girls, I never seem able to avoid the foreign cabaret girls who go down to the bars and drag unsuspecting men into their establishments to overcharge them while they are intoxicated.

Yes, as a father, husband and longtime resident of Japan, I occasionally break with my Japanese coworkers to drink with my foreign friends, and unfortunately sometimes we enjoy ourselves too much and forget to use caution, because not so long ago caution wasn't required in Roppongi.