Japan Quotes

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

War, Yesterday, America

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In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

Kobayashi Issa

Flower, Blossoming, Shade

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Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

Toshitsugu Takamatsu

Art, Nature, Secret

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Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

Nobuyoshi Araki

Photography, Art, Breaking Rules

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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.

Tamae Watanabe

Thinking, Mountain, World

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

Shigeru Yoshida

Ashes, Speak, Risen

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Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

Kelly Jones

Waiting, Sound, Crowds

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In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!

Glenn Danzig

Crazy, Years, Internet Access

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When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Tadao Ando

Unique, Looks, Culture

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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.

Picabo Street

Motivational, Running, Athlete

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I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

Donnie Yen

Aikido, Directors, Festivals

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I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

Chen Shui-bian

Believe, Views, Expectations

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The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Arthur Erickson

Artist, Europe, Architecture

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They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

Barry Sheene

World, Ridiculous, Championship

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My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Kenzaburo Oe

Country, Years, Opposites

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I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.

Trip Hawkins

Successful, Important, I Can

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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Alan Perlis

Speak English, Computer, Made

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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.

Dave Barry

Funny, Baby, Humorous

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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.

Shigeru Yoshida

America, Community, United States

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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.

Dave Barry

Funny, Humorous, People

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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.

Townsend Harris

Country, President, Watches

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My clothes are very popular in Japan.

Vivienne Westwood

Artist, Clothes, Very Popular

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I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

Cher

Christmas, Aunt, America

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

Sasha Cohen

Whales

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The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

Henry A. Wallace

Struggle, Fighting, Democracy

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