World Scene: Mexico

Man at airport for 3 months

A distinguished-looking Japanese tourist lingered more than three months at Mexico City's airport, sleeping on the ground and eating in pricey restaurants, until he left with a woman in a taxi, witnesses said.

Since September, Hiroshi Nohara stayed at Benito Juarez airport after missing his connecting flight to Brazil - he apparently has a return ticket to Tokyo. "They say he's got love problems," Cinnamon Rolls cafeteria employee Ana Elena Ruiz said. Nohara's "documents were in order and there's no law that stops him from staying at the airport. So we couldn't run him off," said a policeman.