Prank Phone Call - itazura denwa (いたずら電話)

So two nights ago, I had my first bizarre moment in Japan. A lot of strange things have happened to my friends already since they been in Japan like being followed by Hosts, doing Karaoke with drunk old men, and being criticized by a random Japanese guy who spoke fluent English.

My moment happened while I was dead asleep at 2am in the morning. I received a random call from a Japanese number. I thought it was one of my friends so I answers. Stupidly, I said in English "Hello, who would you like to speak with?" Thinking about it later, its my cellphone and people calling it would obviously want to talk to me...anyways all I hear is a pause then a male voice saying in Japanese "daisuki yo" which means "I like you a lot." All I say is "sou ka" (really?) and I just hung up. The guy kept calling back. I put my phone on silent but the stupid flashing light on my cellphone woke me up.

While half asleep I remember reading somewhere that in the US some people blast crazy music to scare the prankster. I thought I was a good idea at the time. Thanks to my sister, I have a eclectic range of music on my computer from electronic to death metal. The scariest music I have would be Devil Doll (scary sounding vocals with beautiful, haunting orchestra music.) I decided to answer the phone again...the guy starts saying things like "um...I like you. I see you a lot. Are you Filipino?" I think I said "Urase. Nemutai yo" (Annoying. I want to sleep/sleepy.) then blasted music into the phone and hung up. The bastard was unfazed and called me again but I passed out asleep again.

The next morning I looked at my call log. It was 13 consecutive calls. That morning I told my okaasan about it and she said things like that are called 'itazura denwa.'

I figured out how to block numbers on my phone now. Emotionally, I'm fine but I always think of ways to handle the situation better like I should have put my phone on silent and thrown it under the bed. I also have his number...I could post it.