Japan Quotes - Page 11

• Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

  Isabella Bird

  Novelty, Planets, Offers

  Isabella Lucy Bird (2010). “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• Part of [Japanese companies] growing and expanding around the world is ... going to help the Japanese keep their lifestyles [despite Japan's] demographics, as a declining population, and [to] make it more conducive to women to go to work, I think, is a plus.

  Jamie Dimon

  Thinking, Around The World, Population

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

  Mark Zandi

  Financial, Commodity, Economy

  "Mark Zandi: No Global Impact From Japan". Interview with Lori Ann LaRocco, www.cnbc.com. March 17, 2011.

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• We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

  G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

  Believe, Practice, Dollars

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• It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Years, Roots

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Therefore, I do not think we should go only 60 years back but should look deeper, centuries back. Maybe this will give us [Russia and Japan] an opportunity to look at the future from a more remote perspective.

  Vladimir Putin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Issues, Islands

  Source: www.rt.com

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• 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

  Years, Sides, Broke

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

  Vladimir Putin

  Levels, Economic, Sanctions

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I believe there are a lot of questions today that require expert analysis by various agencies: political agencies, foreign ministries, economic agencies and security agencies. We need to assess everything and understand what we can agree on and what the implications will be both for Japan and for Russia so that both the Russian people and the Japanese people come to the conclusion that these compromise solutions are acceptable and are in our countries' interests.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Russia

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] proposed advancing to a new level of economic engagement, putting forward eight lines of cooperation in the most important and interesting areas both for Russia and for Japan.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Eight, Interesting

  Source: www.rt.com

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• We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

  Robert MacNeil

  Summer, Brother, Home

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• The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

  Eisaku Sato

  People, Desire, Okinawa

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• We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  War, Feelings, Suffering

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• In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Military, Years, Play

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• Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

  Hideki Tojo

  Peace, War, Effort

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• India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

  Yoshiro Mori

  Relationship, Technology, India

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• Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

  Paul Samuelson

  Self, Hype, Deception

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• The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Successful

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.

  Harry S. Truman

  Decision, Bombs, Facts

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.47, University of Missouri Press

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• In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Vietnam, Matter

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or any Asian country, they can turn a television into a watch. They're very creative. And you look at the Indians, they have been very gifted in the spirituality.

  Reggie White

  Country, Creativity, Creative

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• Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

  Morinosuke Kawaguchi

  Girly, Technology, Growth

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• The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

  Morinosuke Kawaguchi

  Anime, Fans, Savvy

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• Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Problem, Cowardice, Conservatism

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