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My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

— Susumu Tonegawa

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

— Francisco Costa

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.

— Lawrence R. Klein

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

— Tom Jones

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

— Tadashi Yanai

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

I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

— Daniel Johnston

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

— Richard Flanagan

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky