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  1. Mar 27, 2018 · Edward Norton — Japanese. After graduating from college, Edward Norton moved to Osaka, Japan, and worked for his grandfather’s company, the Enterprise Foundation. While he was there, he learned to speak Japanese, and he still breaks it out on occasion, like in the video above.

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  3. May 18, 2014 · Although he seems so at-home with Japanese that he’s barely audible, keen ears may notice his Osaka dialect such as the word ookini, a version of “thanks” used in the area. Edward Norton. And long before he was flipping himself over by the arm with an imaginary Brad Pitt, Edward Norton also spent some time in Osaka.

  4. Oct 23, 2014 · The Boston-born, Maryland-raised Edward Norton spent some time in Japan after graduating from Yale. He worked for a foundation created by his grandfather, real-estate developer James Rouse.

  5. He later took lessons from acting coach Terry Schreiber after discovering he was looking for a Japanese translator to help direct a play in Tokyo. [16] . Norton described him as a great teacher who encouraged students to become "multilingual actors" with different techniques for versatile roles. [17]

    • Environmental Advocate. Inspired by the work of his father, Edward found environmental activism at an early age. In 2003, he developed the Solar Neighbors Program with the leading solar-panel producer BP to provide photovoltaic panels for low-income houses in Los Angeles.
    • Raised Funds For Syrian Refugees. In 2015 when the Human of New York Facebook page posted a photo series of a Syrian family whose home was ruined by missiles attached by a wholehearted message from Barack Obama who was the president at that time.
    • A Critique Of Donald Trump. Last year, Edward released his second film – Motherless Brooklyn, 20 years after the first one. He first decided to make this film way back 1999 but with so many good projects offered to him, he barely found time to finish the writing and to gather the resources for financing and casting, which further delayed the appearance of this movie on the big screen.
    • Social Media Influencer. Edward used his social media platform to encourage charity fundraising. Together with three other colleagues, on the 19th of May 2010, they launched their website called CrowdRise.com which seeks to provide people online volunteering and sponsorship for their charities and causes.
  6. Jun 26, 2017 · Edward Norton is one of the best Japanese speakers on our list! The Fight Club star studied Japanese at Yale . At that time, his grandfather was living in Osaka where he ran a non-profit called Enterprise Foundation.

  7. Edward Norton. Actor: Fight Club. American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland.

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