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I really love traveling to Japan.

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.

My life was very Japanese.

Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.