Why Study Japanese?

I have three reasons why I am interested in にほんご.

1) I love Japanese music. I first became interested in Japanese music when I started breakdancing in college. My favorite Japanese artists include: M-Flo, Utada Hikaru, Jazztronik. My favorite Japanese bboy team is Ichigeki, who won Battle of the Year.
2) As a politics major at Princeton, I was surprised by the courage and resilience the Japanese population demonstrated after the Daiichi Plant Disaster. As a result, I wanted to learn more about Japan.
3) For my thesis, I plan to write on either of these two topics, both of which will use Japan as a case study. The first topic deals with the Plaza Accord, which strengthened the price of yen compared to US dollars. The second topic deals with economic stagnation in Japan in the 1990s.

Let's have a fantastic semester!!!

はじめまして。Ko です．どうぞよろしく。こんばんは。