Adolescent Quote by Lois Lowry

I spent three-and-a-half years in Japan, and I was a foreigner, and I was welcomed with open arms over there.

— Angelos Postecoglou

I spent a lot of time in Japan. To me, I felt like my career was kind of marooned out there. I didn't realize…

— Finn Balor

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

— Bruce Feiler

I grew up in a unique environment where I was immersed in both Japanese and American cultures equally.

— Karen Fukuhara

I'm Japanese, of course, but spending so long in America has made me into a different kind of person.

— Kei Nishikori

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

— Yayoi Kusama

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time.…

— Ruth Ozeki

I loved my time in Japan, and I am grateful to have had the chance to live in Japan and embrace the Japanese culture.

— Freddie Ljungberg

“American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese.”

— Ryū Murakami

I've always said that, growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do…

— Rei Kawakubo

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

— Johnny Colt

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

— John Burnham Schwartz