Japan Quotes - Page 14

Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission.

Kingoro Hashimoto

Heaven, World, Sake

"The China Monthly Review", vol. 106-107, p. 41, 1947.

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I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

Tadanobu Asano

Other Worlds, Different, Done

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They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'

Bill Maher

Regulation, Saws, Republican

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I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

Joichi Ito

Broken Heart, Democracy, Fixing

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So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religious, War, Law

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My recent activities have been concentrated on criticism on and actions against Japan's and worldwide plutonium programs, since it is, as I believe, one of the greatest threats to the world.

Jinzaburo Takagi

Believe, Criticism, World

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Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

Shusaku Endo

Christianity

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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

Men, Thinking, Firsts

Edward Rowland Sill, “At Dawn”

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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

Yoshiro Mori

Inspirational, Sports, Rugby

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So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.

Matthew Sweet

Letting Go, Fun, Nice

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Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

Stephen K. Hayes

Art, Dark, Magic

Stephen K. Hayes (2011). “The Ninja and Their Secret Fighting Art”, p.33, Tuttle Publishing

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I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

Norman Reedus

Girl, Jobs, Party

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No wonder this circuit failed. It says 'Made in Japan'.

Doc Brown

Wonder, Made, Circuits

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The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.

Randy Neugebauer

Taken, Weekend, Long

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For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps- competition, modern science, the rule of law and private property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic. Those six things are the secret sauce of Western civilization.

Niall Ferguson

Country, Years, Law

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Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

Jacques Delors

Europe, America, Models

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In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

Marc Newson

Strong, Europe, Australia

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In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.

Kenzaburo Oe

War, Taken, Opportunity

"Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Kenzaburo Oe's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.

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...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in world affairs, and explains to some degree why states like Japan, Britain, France, and Germany - states that are even more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than we are - defer to Washington on major international issues (like Iraq) even when they disagree with us.

Michael Klare

Usa, Oil, Iraq

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So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

William Adams

Two, Gnarly, Feet

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I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.

Robert M. Pirsig

Blow, Wind, America

"Zen and the art of Robert Pirsig". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.

William Thomas Beckford

Writing, Moon, Journey

Letter to Catherine, Lady Hamilton, April 1781; cited from "The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill" by Lewis Melville, London: William Heinemann, (p. 92), 1910.

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The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.

Owen Hart

Fighting, Two, Shapes

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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

Akio Morita

Management, Concern, Amenities

"Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 181), 1986.

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The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.

Seishiro Itagaki

Fall, Cities, Littles

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