I was born in Japan and I was there until I was ten. And then I came to United States with my family. And as an adult, I went back to Japan with a question "Who am I?" Am I a Japanese?

我出生在日本,10岁后便和家人离开来到了美国,作为一个成人，我带着一个问题回到了日本,我是谁？，我是日本人？

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And every musical culture around the world-- and I've talked with ethnomusicologists about this particular point-- every musical culture around the world, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Indian, African whatever, they all use this phenomenon of octave duplication in their music-- octave duplication in the music.

世界各地的每一种音乐文化,我曾经和一些民族音乐学家谈论过这一点,世界各地的每一种音乐文化,中国的,日本的,印尼的,印度的,或是非洲的,大家都有这种现象,即在自己的音乐里运用,这种重复八度

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