Japan Quotes

• Yesterday, December 7, 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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to the Congress Asking That a State of War Be Declared Between the United States and Japan, www.loc.gov. December 8, 1941.

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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, Culture, Looks

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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

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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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

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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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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• We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Blessing, Progress, May

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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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• Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

  Natan Sharansky

  Community, Democracy, Culture

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• Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Moving, Beef, Action

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• The Japanese eat, sleep, and breathe golf; the only thing they don't do is actually play it, because to get on a course, you have to make a reservation roughly 137 years in advance, which means that by the time you actually get to the first tee you are deceased. Of course, in golf this is not really a handicap.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.144, Ballantine Books

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• My clothes are very popular in Japan.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Clothes, Very Popular

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• The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Country, Glowing

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• In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

  Michael Lewis

  Mother, Children, Accomplishment

  Michael Lewis (1995). “Shame: The Exposed Self”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

  Craig L. Thomas

  Doors, Hands, Years

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• I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

  Leslie Caron

  Cinema, Festivals, Tokyo

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• Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration

  Hideki Tojo

  Real, War, Long

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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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• 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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• 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

  "Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature: Lagerkvist-Pontoppidan". Book by Thomson Gale, 2007.

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• I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.40, Ballantine Books

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

  Donnie Yen

  Festivals, Aikido, Directors

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• The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear matching outfits than to get any two randomly selected Americans to agree on pizza toppings.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Two, Groups

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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• One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Good Night, Sports

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• The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.

  William D. Leahy

  Fashion, Children, War

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