I went out looking for my little green friends, but none were to be found.  In the same places as Thursday the grasses were empty.  I took a picture of some farmers spraying their vegetables instead.  I don't know the word for "pesticide" or "fertilizer" in Japanese, so I couldn't ask which. I wouldn't have asked anyway, but it's a long story.  Well, maybe I can summarize it for you.  Grade school kids treat all foreigners like we're wearing Mickey Mouse costumes.  Junior and high school kids treat us like movie stars.  College kids think we're cool.  Working age people are generally polite.  But the older members of society see us as outside that society.  Imagine for example, someone outside of your society.  Lets say one of the space aliens from the Sigourney Weaver movies bicycles up to you with a camera and says "hi."  It might freak you out.