Japan Quotes - Page 21

• 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 was in Los Angeles. I saw the biggest ships you have ever seen with cars pouring off from Japan, into Los Angeles. Just pouring off these ships, and I am saying to myself, we send them beef, it's a tiny fraction, and, by the way, they don't even want it, they have to fight in order to take it in because they don't even want it, and it's very perishable, they'll send it back, they'll find reasons not to take it. And yet the ships, the boats, the ships are loaded up with cars, thousands of cars and they are just pouring off.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, Order, Car

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Japan used to beat China routinely in wars. You know that, right? Japan used to beat China, they routinely beat China. Why are we defending? You know the pact we have with Japan is interesting. Because if somebody attacks us, Japan does not have to help.If somebody attacks Japan, we have to help Japan.

  Donald Trump

  War, Interesting, Doe

  "The Economist interviews Donald Trump". www.economist.com. September 3, 2015.

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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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• 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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• Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Country, School, Land

  Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1966). “The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa”, p.211, Columbia University Press

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• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  Daniel Boulud

  Thailand, Cuisine, Talent

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• Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

  David Suzuki

  Connections, Littles, Matter

  David Suzuki (1987). “Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life”, Stoddart Pub

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• [D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.

  John Leo

  War, Fighting, Media

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• the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

  Cathy Davidson

  Mother, Children, Spring

  Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.21, Duke University Press

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• Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

  Cathy Davidson

  Looks, West, Inches

  Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.13, Duke University Press

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• In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

  Paul Theroux

  Next Week, Years, Turkeys

  Paul Theroux (2012). “The Lower River”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.

  Shinzo Abe

  Change, Country, Thinking

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