Video clip in English. Midori Matsui discusses her linguistic background.

"I came from Japan, and in Japan I was a schoolteacher of English. And I wanted to see England, Great Britain first, before Wales. So I came to England in 1972. Having spent one year there, I was asked to come down to Wales to work for a Japanese company. So the next year, ’73, I came to Wales and ever since I’ve lived here.

" A lot of people have already made a comment, I have got a Welsh accent. I can’t tell though. About Welsh accent, I’ve got a funny story. One day I was at Heathrow airport, looking for a whisky, a particular brand of whisky. And the manager came up to me, started to explain about the whisky. He was thinking I was a tourist, and Japanese people are well known as a lover of whisky. And then all I said was, ‘Thank you very much but no, I know what I’m looking for. So I’m all right.’ But when I said that, he said, ‘Where on earth did you get that Welsh accent?’ And then he realised that I was living in this country, not a tourist, not just a tourist."