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If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

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.

I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

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

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.

Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.