In Gunma

Mehdi and Mansur drink beer while the other Mansur has some green tea.

Mehdi, Mansur and Noriko

Nice couple!

Smile!

Gunma is a prefecture right beside Tokyo. It is a typical representation of Japan's countryside. You cannot survive without a car, the streets are extremely dark, the nearest convenience store is 3km away, there are onsens everywhere, and all you see in the horizon are rice fields. This is where Mansur's cousin (also named Mansur) lives!

A few years ago, at the gym we go to, we met Noriko, a Japanese lady who lived quite close to our place and worked as a hairdresser in the neighborhood. She had lived in Malysia for a while and ended up becoming a Muslim there. She was still single, since in Japan there are not many Muslim men available. So, Mansur and I arranged for his cousin to come and visit us in order to meet her and see if they liked each other. He was also looking for a Muslim lady, but he wanted a Japanese one, which made everything as difficult as it could get. Making a long story short, they dated for a while before getting married. Noriko left Kobe and moved to Gunma, but still dreams of the day she shall return to the Kansai area.