Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're in Florida. But in Japan, you know you're there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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 really love traveling to Japan.
I grew up in Japan. It's my first memories of life are Japan.
I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.
It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.
We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.
In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.