Japanese Quotes

• It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They're fat books; it's a whole different kind of comic that's very close to their films. So I'm drawing from that history and bringing it here - bringing it to Katana.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Different
  • History
  • Drawing

• If you look at Japanese drama, I think there is definitely a treasure trove of it, but I just don't think that people know about it. It's got to be pitched and presented better.

  

  Masi Oka
  • People
  • Drama
  • Japanese

• In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. With all the Japanese public, I mourn for those who perished in battles and lost their lives in the horrors of war.

  

  Akihito
  • War
  • History
  • Lost

• Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.

  

  Fujio Mitarai
  • People
  • Sales
  • Mindset

• When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Crush

• The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Design

• The concept of lifetime employment arose when Japanese managers and employees both realized that they had much in common and that they had to make some long-range plans.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Long
  • Japanese

• I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

  

  Masahiro Tanaka
  • Done
  • Advice
  • Japanese

• As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

  

  Arthur Golden
  • Writing
  • American
  • Past

• The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • World
  • American
  • War

• In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Time
  • Different
  • Why

• I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Japanese

• My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

  

  Nagisa Oshima
  • Japanese

• I love the ath-leisure look, but I'm also super inspired by anime, and I love Japanese culture so much.

  

  Bishop Briggs
  • Culture
  • Inspired
  • Anime

• I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Live
  • She
  • Singing

• At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.

  

  Arjun Rampal
  • Heart
  • Done
  • High

• The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Great
  • Japanese

• Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was informed about what was happening and raised no objection. The public knew, too.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Up
  • America
  • Water

• Designing a game can be like a Japanese garden. It's not what you put in but how much you take away.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Game
  • Garden
  • Japanese

• I love cooking Japanese food at home. It's so easy to make an easy fry, a saute, or a quick braise and serve it over a bowl of rice with pickles and a side salad.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Home
  • Food
  • Cooking

• As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family moved to a more affluent white neighbourhood, I started to see myself as 'other', this amorphous category. I didn't even know what 'not other' was, but I knew I wasn't it; I wasn't what was normal.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • People
  • Family
  • Japanese

• I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • Style
  • Japanese

• I was born in Japan and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was reading manga, and I read 'Death Note' in real time in Japanese.

  

  Masi Oka
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

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