Japanese Culture Quotes

• The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.

  Homaro Cantu

  Beautiful, Country, Years

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• When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

  Tadao Ando

  Unique, Japan, Culture

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• It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.

  Alain Ducasse

  Challenges, Intellectual, Sensual

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• I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

  Toni Collette

  Thinking, Culture, Way

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• Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.

  Apolo Ohno

  Appreciation, Japan, Cities

  "Traveling with the Stars: Apolo Anton Ohno". Interview with Kelly Carter, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 8, 2009.

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• Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

  Roman Coppola

  Japan, Kyoto, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  John Roberts

  Art, Drama, Flower

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• I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Art, Play, Games

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• I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Culture, Fascinated

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended to think that ideology or religion were the things that actually changed people, but it's been proven that that's not the case. Technology has been proven to be the thing that's actually changing people. So in that sense, it's become a theme in Japanese culture.

  Mamoru Oshii

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Russia, Japan

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Blue, Would Be, Culture

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.24, Random House

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• Judo has been part of Japanese culture for a long time. It makes sense to me that this sport, which is both athletic and philosophical, was created in Japan. It is based on respect for the partner and for our elders as our teachers, which is very important and makes a strong, positive contribution to human relationships, and not only in sports. I am happy that life brought me to this wonderful sport as a child. It is like my first love.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Teacher, Strong

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I believe it is no secret that I like Japan very much - Japanese culture, sport, including judo, but it will not offend anyone if I say that I like Russia even more.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Believe, Russia

  Source: www.rt.com

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• A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

  Alexander Gardner

  Religious, Book, Buddhism

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• The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Thinking, Erotic, Alternatives

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art directors who just don't know what' s what with Japanese culture, then pretty soon something's just passed through. I've been through many times where I've pointed out the incorrectness of so much of what's been done to a set.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Art, Character, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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