I am the GRANDSON of immigrants from JAPAN who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world, seeking new opportunities. My mother was born in Sacramento, CALIFORNIA. My FATHER was a San Franciscan. They met and married in Los Angeles, and I was born there.

I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, YEAH, I started modeling there in my TEENS and into my 20s. I did Calvin Klein, Uniqlo, and lots of magazine covers. It's such a BEAUTIFUL country, and they have beer vending MACHINES right on the street. Love that!

Norway, for some reason, I find Norway really FASCINATING, you really feel nature in that country. And then there is somewhere like Japan, which is the most interesting culturally because their whole PSYCHOLOGY, how they think is so different to us and how I've GROWN up.

There was a time in the mid-1950s when the PHILIPPINES was in the same league as Japan economically and academically. Fifty YEARS down the road, and we are ALMOST DEAD LAST in the ASEAN region.

ANYTIME you spar at a NEW dojo, whether it's in Japan, BRAZIL, or Thailand, the fighters come after the new guy. It's a way to test yourself against the best and to sharpen your TECHNICAL skills and PUSH yourself to be the best you can be.

I was born in JAPAN and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was READING manga, and I READ 'Death NOTE' in real TIME in Japanese.

I WATCH DRAGON GATE, New Japan, NXT, AEW. I love the Lucha BROS, The Young Bucks. MAINLY I watch the guys in the shows that I'm on.

Unfortunately, our postwar policy has been to ask Japan to CHANGE so that our economic POLICIES will dovetail. I think that is completely wrong. The SOLUTION is for AMERICA to change.

In the 1970S, JAPAN MOVED into the U.S. turf with its televisions, cars, chips, and steel. But if you think about it, the only business Japan DESTROYED was the U.S. television industry.

The CAUSES of the China Incident were the exclusion and INSULT of JAPAN throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the PERSECUTION of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese RIGHTS.