Japan Quotes

• I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

  

  Shigeru Yoshida
  • Speak
  • Ashes
  • Risen

• I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Strong
  • Culture
  • Interest

• At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

  

  Edward Rowland Sill
  • Think
  • Drink
  • Japan

• Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • America

• America's health care system is second only to Japan... Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, ... well all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Great
  • Live
  • America

• I go up to San Francisco on holidays and spend time with my family there, but whenever I go to Japan, I enjoy every moment. I try to go back there every year or so. It's a phenomenal place, and I absolutely love it. It's not my second home; it is my home. Whenever I go back, I feel very connected with Japan.

  

  Ryan Potter
  • Moment
  • Connected
  • My Family

• I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Fantastic
  • Japan
  • Haiku

• Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • America
  • Action
  • Voice

• I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Japan
  • Whale
  • Tartare

• If Japan reach the quarter-finals of the Rugby Word Cup then I can retire. Sit back, enjoy and criticise and be like Clive Woodward on the Television.

  

  Eddie Jones
  • Enjoy
  • Reach
  • Rugby

• They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here.

  

  Michael D. Barnes
  • Pretty
  • Europe
  • Killing

• If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Effort
  • Security
  • Achieve

• A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

  

  Alexander Gardner
  • Tradition
  • Japan
  • Stereotype

• For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

  

  Rei Kawakubo
  • Certain
  • Creation
  • Forward

• I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

  

  William Gibson
  • May
  • Japan

• I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Independent
  • Company
  • Graduated

• RIKEN has attracted numerous outstanding scientists from inside and outside Japan, and these people have achieved creative and outstanding results.

  

  Ryoji Noyori
  • People
  • Creative
  • Results

• In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Customs

• It's the first time we've been over there in a long time. We were very successful in Japan. It was one of our most successful markets.

  

  Doug Fieger The Knack
  • Success
  • Japan
  • Markets

• Next year [2017], we are going to hold a series of events there that we would like to call Russian Seasons [in Japan]. Over 40 different activities - and what is more, in different cities.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Different
  • Cities
  • Events

• By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Way
  • Space
  • Flight

• Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

  

  Nicola Formichetti
  • Inspiration
  • Source
  • Japan

• At some point a few years ago Japan unilaterally stopped those talks and broke off contacts with us. It was not we who broke off contacts with Japan, it was the Japanese side that broke off contacts with us.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Sides
  • Contact
  • Broke

• There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Energy
  • China
  • Amount

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