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I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

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.

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.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

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

How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.