Where did James Kyson Lee, the actor who plays Ando Masahashi on "Heroes" learn Japanese?

Where did James Kyson Lee, the actor who plays Ando Masahashi on "Heroes" learn Japanese?
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I don’t know but I can tell you that my wife (she’s Japanese) says that his Japanese is terrible. He is probably reciting it mostly phonetically. He is definitely not fluent.
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