Quotes About Diversity

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.

I can fight in Japan, I can fight in Europe, I can fight in U.S. How am I not marketable? I speak English.

When I started with New Japan in 2011, there was a total of five or six foreigners on the roster.

I watched Japanese style wrestling, European style wrestling, and WCW.

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

I cherish our songs in both Japanese and English.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.

A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.

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

I'm not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.

As a kid living in an isolated desert town, the most diversity I saw in my media was Claudia Kishi, the Japanese American girl from 'The Baby-Sitters Club.'

I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant.

I don't really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like. I just feel like me.

It's a tough line, Japanese and western games. We wanted to blur that line.

I hate the marketing side of business where, 'Oh let's do a shoe for this clientele or for the Chinese or for the Japanese.' We're doing the same products for everyone.

We would love to perform in Japan in Japanese, in America in English.

I feel like, of course, Houston has Asian fans and Japanese fans, and Asian fans live all over the place.

It's an honour to be Japanese.

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