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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

— Arthur Golden

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My life was very Japanese.

— Bryan Clay

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

— Yoko Ono

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

— Ziyi Zhang

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

— Bruno Mars

I became more interested in the idea of being an immigrant and particularly of being in a country you're not familiar with. And so I began reading migrants' stories. The fact that my father is Chinese - he emigrated from Malaysia when he was about 20 - may have had some bearing on my attraction to the subject.

— Shaun Tan

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.

— Andrea Jung

I grew up in Japan. It's my first memories of life are Japan.

— Johnny Colt

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

— Haruki Murakami

✗Opposing Perspectives

My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.

— Blake Bailey