Japanese Quotes
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I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
Yuri Kochiyama -
After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
Naomi Klein
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The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.
Ralph Bakshi -
If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.
Fred Korematsu -
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.
Chris Abani -
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
Yoshihiko Noda -
The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.
Samantha Harvey -
Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
Akio Morita
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I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.
Jean Pigozzi -
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux -
I am very happy to help share the great treasure trove of Japanese content with the western world.
Masi Oka -
Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!
Masaharu Morimoto -
The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
Lady Gaga -
...the differences between U.S. and Japanese companies go beyond the cultural.
Akio Morita
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One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty.
Edward Zwick -
The 'patron saint' of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
Akio Morita -
We were like, ‘Hey, what are you doing!?’ but soon twigged they were trying to give us a proper Japanese welcome by carrying our bags for us. Great. This was the life. Then we looked round and saw Gillian still struggling with hers. Turns out that in this culture they don’t help a woman. We got her a trolley.
Peter Hook New Order -
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
Iain Banks -
The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minutes of this English version of a hugely popular Japanese film will quickly disabuse any discerning viewer of the notion that it is a Disney creation.
Elvis Mitchell -
Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.
Masaharu Morimoto
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As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.
John Shelton Reed -
If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?
Jim Rogers -
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
Barry Eisler -
History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
Frank Gaffney