The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.

I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.

If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company, say Sony, there are very, very good researchers. So I would have to ask them what I could do.

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.

I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.