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One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty.

I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

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

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.