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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.

An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.

I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.