It gave us an insight into the other side of the Japanese character and how ruthless they could be.

"Not many Japanese characters work in roles of real complexity," he says.

The Japanese character showed in other ways as well.

The tattoos use Japanese characters to represent faith, love and strength.

Players can continue their game at any time using a 14-symbol password system consisting of common Japanese characters.

The system can read handwritten Japanese characters correctly 92 percent of the time.

Here, he created a Japanese female character that would later become the inspiration for his own series.

"Because of the Japanese character, our park is probably a little cleaner."

The Japanese characters on the cover say "do young bad people fly?"

The Japanese characters making up the name mean "strong man".