The correct answer is, "No."

Just so you know, if any Japanese people ever catch you eating something native to the country / easily obtainable locally and ask you "Do you like that?"

Sometime last week I brought a kiwi to work with my lunch. The teacher who sits on my right asked me if I liked kiwis, and I said "Yeah they're tasty!" and happily munched away on it. I thought the exchange had ended there, but this morning he comes in to work and pulls out a big plastic bag full of kiwis he'd bought . . . I dunno, somewheres. Wholesale, apparently. I keep forgetting how close to New Zealand we are.

Anyway, it's not uncommon for the teachers in my office to bring in a sack full of fruit and pass it around, but usually it's native stuff like mikan (teeny-weeny sweet little seedless oranges that grow all the hell over Western Japan. In Isobe, any home-owner lucky enough to have a yard has either a mikan or a persimmon tree in it, possibly both). So I took out a kiwi and gave the bag back so he could pass it to the next desk over. But he shook his head and gave it back, and said "No no, that's all for you!" There are like 20 kiwis in this bag! I don't know how I will find time to eat them all before they start going squidgy.

Then around lunchtime I went downstairs to the school's lunchfood stand, which is a little office near the student entrance that sells sandwiches and [any pastry you can think of here]-with-[any food you can think of here]-filling concoctions and onigiri, which are what the Japanese invented by way of sandwiches using rice balls instead of bread slices. They come wrapped in little seaweed ribbons so they won't stick to your other onigiri / foodstuffs and hey, bonus nutrition from the seaweed!

I bought a curry-filled-bun and was going to be on my way, when the lunch-lady, whom I have literally seen only twice thus far, today being the second time, called me back and handed me a big paper bag full of mikan. I don't know how she heard that I like mikan, because all she asked me before handing me the bag was if I HAD any mikan. Of course I said no, because all I had at that time were apples and bananas in the apartment and a huge-frickin'-sack full of kiwi in the office. And now I have mikan for days! I just ate one in my dinner tonight, with some spinach and lemon-baked chicken. Kind of a rudimentary "Asian" chicken salad, I guess :p

In conclusion, Japanese people love feeding me.