I am a Japanese-speaking Loan Officer here in Hawaii.

In the day talking the 90's when the Japanese were rich they out bid everyone for the premium logs.. but that's a whole nother story but a very fond one.

I speak fluent Japanese, but as it is a flight and a drive or an 8hr bullet train ride away, it will still be a long distance investment. 

I am a native of Charlotte, NC (apparently so rare they call us unicorns) and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a double major in Business Management and Japanese.

After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor the government rounded up all the Japanese in CA and took their land with the blessing of the courts. 

I would say I'm conversational in Japanese too. 

Contrary to what you mentioned, the US dollar has tanked against most currencies all other major currencies, including the Euro, The Pound Sterling, the Canadian Dollar, the Australian Dollar and the Japanese Yen.

Japanese cars are famous for being more reliable.

The spa adds two saunas, a steam room, Japanese soaking tub, cold plunge and shower.

Now sometimes the star's align and the first big high rise they built in Oahu was for a Japanese firm that paid cash and never asked them for a bond..