Japan Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, War, Reality

  Dinesh D'Souza (2009). “Letters to a Young Conservative”, p.209, Basic Books

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• Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Average, People

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Motherhood

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• I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, People, Miracle

  "NBC White Paper (If Japan Can... Why Can't We?)". TV Series, June 24, 1980.

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• The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.

  Ruth Benedict

  Differences, Goal, United States

  Ruth Benedict (2006). “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Wisdom, Ideas, Agriculture

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• Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Military, World, Militarism

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• It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, Justice, Ordinary

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1997). “Letters From Burma:”

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• Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

  Ed Royce

  Marine, Issues, Ongoing

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• Members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz order trace their origins back through Tibet, Japan, China, India, and ancient Egypt to the place the order was founded, the lost continent of Atlantis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Egypt, Order, Atlantis

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• 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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• 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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• The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue.

  Seishiro Itagaki

  War, Long, May

  "Time". Book by Briton Hadden, p. 29, 1923.

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• I've been to Japan so many times, but I still constantly stumble across things that are so foreign to me.

  Travis Rice

  Stills

  Source: www.outdoorjapan.com

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• It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to Japan, with the expectation that they would then be sent to the United States. But they weren't accepted, so they stayed in Japan.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Expectations, United States

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to Japan, a semi-feudal society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Interesting, Mary

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• The last time I was in Japan as President of Russia was 11 years ago, if memory serves. I later visited in my capacity as Prime Minister.

  Vladimir Putin

  Memories, Russia, Years

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.

  Vladimir Putin

  Interesting, Culture, Well Known

  Source: www.rt.com

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• [Yasuhiro] Yamashita is a respected judo master not only in Japan but across the world. To me, he is an example of an outstanding athlete and a very good man.

  Vladimir Putin

  Athlete, Men, Good Man

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or Mexico or Japan.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  People, Doe, Germany

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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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• Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

  Tadanobu Asano

  Country, People, Want

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