In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

In pursuing a ‘way, ’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.

Every city in the world can be improved in less than three years.

You're playing competitive, and it's always better to play four competitive rounds than it is two because you sit there for a weekend and then you start all over again.

Comparison leads to violence.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.