Japan Quotes
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Japan Quotes & Sayings
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I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.
— Lee Myung-bak
The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
— Ben Bernanke
Poetic injustice ... having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ... are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.
— Mother Jones
How much does he lack himself who must have many things?
— Sen No Rikyu
Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head.
— Soseki Natsume
Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.
— Henry Selick
I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.
— Andrew Cherng
Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.
— Ryan Graudin
If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Japan is the perfect example of make plans, and watch God laugh.
— Christopher Titus
the shoulder I built up in Japan. Since I came to the major leagues, I couldn't train my own way, so now I've lost all those savings." Farrell
— Terry Francona
Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
— Baba Kalyani
In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
— Carine Roitfeld
There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.
— Yoshihiko Noda
As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing science from them.
— Kenichi Fukui
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
— Angela Carter
The new fans of Japan won't be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.
— Morinosuke Kawaguchi
We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.
— Ali Abdullah Saleh
You know Americans ... Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.
— Alan Brown
Now you should have no qualms about leaving that village. That place isn't fit for kappa anymore.
— Susumu Katsumata
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
— J. Paul Getty
The peace within and flowing from sacred spaces and architecture places is clothed in forgiveness, renunciation, and reconciliation.
— Norris Brock Johnson
This is kaiju!" Yojiro barked. "When did they ever give a damn about adhering to science!
— Hiroshi Yamamoto
As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life.
— Japan Foundation
From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.
— Shogo Oketani
In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.
— H.E. Davey
I would like to inform you with great satisfaction of a new step forward on establishing partnership between Russia and Japan
— Vladimir Putin
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: Well, who are the best people to live with?
— Lafcadio Hearn
We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.
— Rick Wagoner
On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.
— Tan Twan Eng
When [Japanese] women encouraged men to bask in public glory, it reminded me of the way you would indulge a child with a sweet-bean treat.
— Kittredge Cherry
From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman.
— Soseki Natsume
Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.
— Trevor Dunn
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
— Susumu Tonegawa
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
— Sydney Pollack
Half my fan mail comes from Japan.
— Ben Barnes
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
— Naoto Kan
Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.
— Hidetoshi Nakata
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.
— Marcel Carne
In Asia, Free People, along with World Co., Ltd. of Japan, will launch a shop in Shinjuku and a freestanding store and wholesale showroom in Harajuku.
— Richard Hayne
The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.
— P. J. O'Rourke
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
— Ziyi Zhang
If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.
— Akio Morita
Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
— Tadashi Yanai
We say in Japan that those who travel for love find a thousand miles not longer than one. Though
— Marc Cameron
Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.
— Shigeru Yoshida
In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.
— Simon McBurney
I first met Hanson over in Japan and they gave me some great advice about the fans and they seem real down to earth. They're great.
— Meredith Brooks
I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful
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thing, a beautiful thing. — Andy Couturier
Among the other enthusiastic dumpers were Russia, China, Japan and nearly all the nations of Europe.
— Bill Bryson
Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.
— Jon Courtenay Grimwood
The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.
— James Blake
Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me.
— Seungri
European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.
— John Bruton
China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.
— Yuan Shikai
In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.
— H.E. Davey
In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
— Utada Hikaru
Other good reading from Japan includes Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen, with its heroine who finds whatever comfort she can in food; Miyuki
— Nancy Pearl
The cold war is over; Japan won.
— Paul Tsongas
The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.
— Gerald Vizenor
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
— Natan Sharansky
A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.
— Hiroyuki Sanada
We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.
— Renzo Rosso
I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.
— Ken Watanabe
I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.
— Carrie Ann Inaba
The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.
— Seishiro Itagaki
For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.
— Jim Costa
The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.
— Shinzo Abe
They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
— Barry Sheene
Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
— Robert Kennedy
As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
— Prince Royce
My favorite country to visit is Japan.
— Steve Aoki
Luna Sea's music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy.
— Josephine Yun
My God, how long would you have let me wander around Prague before you said 'hold up a minute, Helga, this isn't Japan!
— Abigail Roux
Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.
— Nicola Formichetti
The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.
— John Bruton
Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.
— Andy Couturier
Kon's films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.
— Andrew Osmond
But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.
— Billy Higgins
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
— Hayao Miyazaki
It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.
— Yoshihiko Noda
Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.
— Tyffani Clark Kemp
Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.
— Susumu Katsumata