This evening at the front of Mitsukoshi Ginza, my mom and I were waiting to cross the street. A man in his 30s, leather jacket street clothes, black rimmed glasses, walked into my mother with so much force that she bumped into my side too. I looked down a moment at my mom's purse, she said she was fine, then I turned around (facing Mitsukoshi doors). Then the man, somehow, also turns around then walks BACK toward me saying things with a hostile voice. I didn't do anything, I just kind of looked at him wide-eyed (I was wearing a face mask). Then he growls "Naniii!!?", he stands another step toward me, maybe less than an arm's length away. I don't say anything, I'm just caught off guard by all of this, then he raises a hand and uses his finger in a slicing motion across his mouth. Then he turns around and walks into the main doors. At that point I yelled after the man, and I wanted to get the store security attention, but my mother (very selfishly) pulled my jacket so I couldn't do so.
I find this strangely absurd with the "Naniii?" and hand slicing motion. Like TV gangster behavior. Those gestures were strangely ridiculous and made me afraid simultaneously.
Was this man part of a criminal group? Would he have had a concealed weapon on him the way he threatened me? Did he assume that I would actually understand his Japanese movie gestures? Did he assume I was Japanese (I am East Asian).
I figure the police are going to be useless and take up more of my finite time, so I have not filed a report. Eventually, I did wait 20 minutes and tell the incident to an English speaking Mitsukoshi staff, but of course they claim they cannot do anything. In an ideal world I would press charges, as those cameras above and inside the Mitsukoshi doors basically recorded everything. Which again seems ridiculous because only a mentally/emotionally extreme person would act this way in full view of cctv cameras.
But mainly I would like to know what the hell is up with this, is this known to happen to tourists in Tokyo, etc. We were literally just waiting to cross the street.
by calf