Well, Japan is way more hostile to magic and metahumanity, so it's a different ball of wax. North America is more like Europe in that there's a border not too far away if you are in the Pacific Northwest.

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Edit: I re-read more carefully after work. Sure, a Tokyo run -might- work, but it's hard to use non-Japanese runners. An extract run to Yomi might be interesting.