I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is. - Anthony Bourdain
Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way. - Anthony Bourdain
Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health. - Shigeru Miyamoto
Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different. - Shigeru Miyamoto
There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story. - Shigeru Miyamoto
Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad. - Nobuo Uematsu
Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan. - Nobuo Uematsu
However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan. - Nobuo Uematsu
I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous. - Nobuo Uematsu
