Japanese quote by photographer of msp, mitch ikeda. It can be translated as 'oh, you've got beautiful eyes'. The sentence in Kanji script (the Chinese characters used in modern Japanese writing) reads:

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Meaning literally:

"Your eyes, very beautiful aren't they? You have very beautiful eyes right now."

Anybody who speaks Japanese and would like to give us a more precise explanation of this quote's meaning, feel free to do so at mail@manics.nl.

in 2002 a book came out with photographs of msp by mitch ikeda, called 'forever delayed'.

Thanks to Matt Crichton and Matthew Stratford for providing the correct Japanese sentence.