"It is! Think it must've been springtime, too, cause there were all these cherry trees blooming." He looked rather pleased about it, even if Osaka and Kyoto were only an hour and a half away.

"Since you're a reporter, you've probably been all over the place, right? Drinkin' coffee, sleeping in your car..." Apparently, Heiji saw Clive as a pretty hard-boiled reporter. No posh, fancy hotel rooms for this guy. "Well, I guess in America, they have news vans. Not too sure about the U.K., though."