After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
I really love traveling to Japan.
I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.
I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego.
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.
When you're a model, you learn how to make the most of your assets - in my case, the smallish behind that is the legacy of my half-Japanese heritage.
I grew up in Japan. It's my first memories of life are Japan.