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

My life was very Japanese.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

I'm Japanese, but restaurants in my hometown served the most sanitized versions of California rolls. I grew up eating a lot of Japanese food at home that my parents or grandparents made.

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.

In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.