"Hopefully these were antique," she says. "Elephants, endangered species, conservation. All that," Noriko elaborates as simply as possible. She hates the idea of the ivory trade being so demanding as to kill creatures which are already in danger of no longer existing.

"I didn't say the concern made sense, just that it was there. And I've been attacked at a school, it's not like physical location has a whole lot to do with it."