Midori had initially said that he had emigrated to Uruguay, but that later turns out to be a joke; Mr. Kobayashi was actually in a hospital in Tokyo, with brain cancer.
Midori je isprva rekla da je emigrirao u Urugvaj, ali to se ispostavilo šalom; G. Kobajashi je, zapravo, bio u tokijskoj bolnici zbog raka mozga.