"Too many Japanese believe that they can say whatever they like in Japanese ('that statement was for a domestic audien…"

"Other people have called me a "human rights" activist. I don't mind the label, but I don't think I'd go so far. It pu…"

"I guess the clarification I should make here is that Japan is as potentially racist as anywhere else, but for a devel…"

"Truth be told, having two passports in Japan is not necessarily a problem. If one lived a quiet life, one could conce…"

"Starting from 1993 in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and now running unchecked throughout Japan, signs saying 'Japanese Only' have …"

"[To] me naturalization is just an obvious extension of what somebody in my position would desire anyway — the right t…"

"A "Naturfolk" learns by intimate contact with nature that there is a healing power in the flower and the grass, in th…"

"Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-u…"

"A typical samurai calls a literary savant a book-smelling sot. Another compares learning to an ill-smelling vegetable…"

"Death for a cause unworthy of dying for, was called a "dog's death." "To rush into the thick of battle and to be slai…"