Yoshiki interview in Sichuan [English with Chinese dub]

Yoshiki of X Japan giving an interview to sina.com in Sichuan, China.

You can only listen to Yoshiki's part of the talk if you turn off the sound from your right speaker/earphone (Yoshiki's voice comes from the left line and the Chinese translation from the right).

Here is sort of a summary for lazy people:
He talks about the Yoshiki Foundation, a charity foundation he founded (or wants to found, I didn't quite get that), a few of his past experiences with donating, like for orphans in Hong Kong, when he was there with X Japan in January and also for the Kobe earthquake in 1995 with X Japan. Also about his experiences visiting the earthquake site in Sichuan.

Then says that they haven't decided to place to preform in China in terms of the place (venue, I imagine). He says the management is working on it and if the concert happens, it's going to be amazing. (When they ask him what he wants to see in China, I imagine) he tells them that he wants to see pandas as he's a huge panda fan. He also says he saw the Olympics and it was amazing.

He carries on saying that he was surprised this time (about the enthusiastic fans meeting him at the airport probably) as they hadn't announced anything, so he wasn't prepared- hair all messy and stuff.

He says the Hong Kong concerts were the best they ever had and that they are in the best shape ever, even though hide isn't with them any more (in the way that he can't play the guitar live... as he's dead).

Lastly (they probably ask how long they want to keep on preforming), he says that until there are fans, they want to do as much as they can. Also, they are recording a few new songs at this point and they'll release the X Japan Best Of album with three or four new songs. He ends with 'I would say, no later than this upcoming summer'. (I'm not sure was it about the Best Of album, or anything else as I didn't understand the question, so if anyone could clarify on that, I'd be glad Smiley )

Taken from sina.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• yoshiki
• x-japan
• china
• sichuan

[bluevioletspider]

Thanks a lot!

Yoshiki really likes animals. hahaha! He once said that he wanted to perform in front of elephants. So this time, in front of pandas ; ) ?

(BTW, I think Yoshiki's voice comes from the "right" line, and the Chinese translation, from the "left" ...)

[XFreakscom]

I'm pretty sure it's the left side, because my earphones have the sides marked :)

[cantelini]

Yoshiki is God!

[colongil]

STUPID TRANSLATOR.

[TheAndreibe]

eu sou o unico Brasileiro que curte x-japan? ho my god!

[magz21dec]

@TheCentrix lol i speak english french and spanish and can understand what you mean about english being easier oh btw spanish grammar is almost as bad as french grammar so no i wouldn't call it easier. yoshiki is very impressive to know more then two languages. and i can say from experience his english is excellent. saranghae, te amo,je t'aime, Ich liebe dich, rakastan sinua, Wǒ ài nǐ, Ma armastan sind ,Tôi yêu bạn, ya tebya lyublyu, aishiteru, i love you Yoshiki sama!

[NickyLuvUSA]

X, WE LOVE U!!!

YOSHIKI,WE LOVE U!!!

[fcknsickofitall]

He's very good looking for his age :)

[hydeistforever55]

i hate that fuckin translater u cnt even hear yoshiki!!!!! GO PANDA FUND!!! Love Yoshiki and Heath.XD

[NeoNebula0Katana]

I can't make out much of what he's saying because of that translator. :( I tried just using one side of my earphones but I hear the translator's voice over both sides. So sad now. But thanks for sharing!

[kosuke0810]

He could speak much better than this. I saw some video in which he speaks pretty good, but in this video, it is not as good as the one i saw.

[Pockykiwi]

Lol! "I wanna see pandas" so cute. XD Since people tend to pick up a foreign language more quickly when they're living abroad, I think it's only normal that Yoshiki speaks English well, considering that he's been living in LA for (I think?) more than 10 years now.

[Hykuya]

I love his accent, he wouldn't be yoshiki if he didnt have that sexy accent :D