Japan Quotes
Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.
I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!
The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.
People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.
China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.
The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.
Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost.
We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.
Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.
Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.
Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.
Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is
Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.
Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.
Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.
The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.
It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.
One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.
No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.
Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?
Everybody understands a slap in the face. In Japan, Belgium, or America, a punch is a punch. Comedy will be different in Europe or America or Japan, so my movies are very international.
