Eager for love, Japanese goes wild at NAIA

A drunken Japanese engineer caused a furor at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal I yesterday when he loudly shouted invectives before lying down on the floor of the arrival area in anger at his failure to see his Filipina girlfriend welcome him upon arrival.

Fortunately for Naoki Hosaka, 45, a resident of Minami-Rokugou, Tokyo, Japan, airport authorities, particularly Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers, chose to extend to him "maximum tolerance," owing to his drunken condition and did not deport him back to Japan for his antics.

It was learned that Hosaka had just disembarked from Japan Airlines Flight JL-741 that landed at the NAIA at around 1:35 p.m. He was reeking of liquor and was going through the immigration line when passengers and airport officers were surprised after he suddenly shouted Japanese words at people and walked aimlessly back and forth in the immigration counter area.

In the course of his rampage, he tried to ward off efforts to restrain him. Hosaka walked around the Immigration area up to the Customs area, where he later dropped to the floor and broke out crying.

Witnesses said Hosaka appeared to be looking for his Filipina girlfriend whose name, Myra Ramirez, he was shouting during his rampage.

When airport officers finally managed to convince him to walk out of the airport lobby area, Hosaka had even spitted in the lobby and almost hit a Philippine Airlines employee who was walking in the area.

Airport policemen were able to calm down Hosaka when they found Ramirez in the well-wishers area and escorted her to Hosaka, helping them urge him to walk out of the lobby into their ride out the airport.