[The answer to that is really way more of a mess than it should be. So she'll go with the simplest version.]

I'm from Japan, but I haven't been home in some time. My work takes me all over the world, and I'm not sure when the chance for a trip back will come up.

[None of that is technically a lie!]

And you?

[The name Van Helsing doesn't actually mean much to her. She's certainly heard of the book Dracula, but it's really not the type of thing she'd go out of her way to read.]