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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.

I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.

I really love traveling to Japan.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

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

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.