People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
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The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
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.
We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.
I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.
It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
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.
It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
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