Don't you dare go back to Tokyo - some grudges are worth holding forever, and this is one of them. Just write them off as a nation of creepy gropers with a blonde fetish and be done with it.
I have a similar policy in place for the city of Milwaukee.
I was traveling around Europe for a few months after college and I met a bunch of Americans with temporary work permits in England as part of some student exchange thing, so I figured I'd get one of those. They all advised me, however, that you were supposed to set up the visa before you left your country. A minor technicality, I figured. I knew the name of the service and where its office was in London, so I figured I'd just sweet talk the details.
Thus, I arrived at Dover immigration and when the guy asks me what my plans were for my visit to England, I cheerfully announced, "To get a job." Wrong answer.
Long story short, he scowled a lot but after showing him my credit cards and cash and my friend's address where I'd stay and promising not to look for work over and over, and having him stamp my passport repeatedly with "DO NOT LET THIS MAN WORK!!" (or something to that effect), they let me in.
Ironically, I met up with my friend at a pub across from his apartment that evening where a friend of his offered me an illegal job on the spot as a "carpenter's mate," rennovating an apartment, for the next five weeks of my visit.
That, and the ordeal at Dover customs gave me the insight of how to smuggle a large (personal) quantity of hash through British customs on my next visit a couple of months later, but that's a different story...
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