Japan Quotes - Page 25

• People don't put as much of an emphasis in expanding their choices, so that, you know, one of the things that I learned when I was in Japan way back in the 1990's and there were all these quarrels happening between the U.S. and Japan about allowing more American products into the Japanese market.

  Sheena Iyengar

  People, Choices, Way

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

  Hidetoshi Nakata

  Europe, Littles, Knows

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• I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.

  Kohei Uchimura

  Sports, Strong, Believe

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• To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Country, Europe, America

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• In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  Military, War, Home

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• We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Ties, Support, Development

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• Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Alternatives, Use

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• I've been to Japan but I've never been to China, I'd love to go to China. I don't know, I like to go to places that are remote. So, I think I'd like to do that more. And just sort of also explore not having a structured work life someday, to have more free time to sort of see what happens.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Someday, China

  "Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig Talk THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, Filming in Iceland, Balancing Fantasy and Reality, Comparisons to the Original, and More". Press conference, collider.com. April 21, 2013.

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• I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, Cities, Important

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.205, Ballantine Books

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• I would like to inform you with great satisfaction of a new step forward on establishing partnership between Russia and Japan

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Satisfaction, Steps

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• Technically, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic ties 50 years ago, but this wasn't included in the Normalization Treaty because forced prostitution, coerced sex just was taboo to even talk about.

  Elise Hu

  Sex, Korea, Years

  "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little League World Series. That's pretty good. See, that proves that when math and science aren't involved, our kids can beat anybody.

  Jay Leno

  Uplifting, Beach, Team

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• China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Pay, World

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• The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over there." You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here. So you don't have to do the long search, the frantic chase, the painful quest. You're already right where you need to be.

  Steve Hagen

  Running, Buddhism, Long

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• It has been believed for a long time in Japan that things such as the constitution can never be changed. I say we should change our constitution now. The U.S. has amended its constitution six times, but Japan has done it zero times.

  Shinzo Abe

  Zero, Long, Done

  "The Patriot: Shinzo Abe Speaks to TIME". Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Hannah Beech, time.com. April 17, 2014.

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• The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces are, as clearly set forth in statements issued by the Japanese Government, not only to protect the vested interests of Japan and the lives and property of the Japanese residents in the affected area, but also to scourge the Chinese Government and army who have een pursuing anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies in collaboration with Communist influences.

  Iwane Matsui

  Mean, Army, Government

  "Shanghai's Undeclared War: An Illustrated Factual Recording of the Shanghai Hostilities". Book by George C. Bruce, p. 54, 1937.

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• I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Fate, Rome

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.73, Oxford University Press

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• In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.

  George Orwell

  Party, Writing, Squares

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and Politics”, p.459, Penguin UK

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• We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Country, Korea

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• I don't really think that audiences are that much different. I think that a fan is the same whether you are from here or from Japan - you come to a show because you like the music. I don't really see much of a difference anywhere.

  Jason Aldean

  Thinking, Differences, Fans

  Interview with Ziyah Karmali, www.shavemagazine.com.

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• Starbucks being an extension of peoples home and work. The sense of community, human connection. That appears to be as relevant in Turkey, China, Japan and Spain as it is here in America. And Starbucks I think is creating something for people all over the world that has not existed before.

  Howard Schultz

  Home, Thinking, Creating

  Interview with Ipek Cem, www.global-leaders.tv. December 14, 2005.

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• According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

  Sadao Araki

  House, Sun, Belief

  "Contemporary Japan" by Nihon Gaiji Kyokai, (p. 422), 1932.

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• Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.

  Sadao Araki

  Destiny, Thinking, White

  "World War II almanac" by Robert Goralski (p. 9), 1981.

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• Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.

  Sadao Araki

  Voice, America, League

  "China and America" by Foster Rhea Dulles, (p. 200), 1981.

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• It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.

  Sadao Araki

  Sea, World, Four

  "Japan and the Defence of Australia" by Edmund Leolin Piesse, (p. 15), 1935.

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