And so I was a very unusual child who played in Japanese. After all this time, I still remember American customs and so forth. America at that time was the Number One country in everything, so there were a lot of superstars. I was a big fan of the New York Yankees, and Mickey Mantle was still hitting home runs then. I thought that it was a great country, an affluent country.
Superstars are that way after all.
My idols, Mickey Mantle in the 70's became, the Carpenters, Simon and Garfunkel, and so on. But then in the 80's there were no longer so-called superstars, but if pressed to name some, I would say only Michael Jackson and Madonna. It causes some concern about whether things are all right. In such a current of the times, I would like the people of Japan to have a bit more confidence and look within. Conversely, I would like the people of America to look a bit more outwards.