for those wondering how i knew the daughter, i got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease at 16 so had to do a third year of what in the UK we call 6th form, but like the stuff you do so you can go to university. I ended up doing that third year in a random school in cambridge and because its cambridge the birthplace of fancy english stuff, a lot of rich japanese, chinese, russian and korean kids were being sent their by their parents to get english grades so they could go to english universities.
After the oligarch fiasco, i ended up dating a really wonderful japanese girl who was learning animation. She told me in broken english her dad worked with boats. I assumed fishing.
3 months later while in japan on holiday with her, wondering how we're staying in such a nice hotel, her english had improved enough to tell me that her dad was a High Admiral of the Japanese Navy.
Cool, cool, cool. So another father who could casually have me killed.