Japan Quotes

• Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Yesterday, America

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to the Congress Asking That a State of War Be Declared Between the United States and Japan, www.loc.gov. December 8, 1941.

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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, Culture, Looks

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• In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Flower, Shade, Blossoming

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• I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Ashes, Speak, Risen

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• Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, People

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

  Kelly Jones

  Waiting, Sound, Crowds

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• The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Baby, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Believe, Views, People

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• We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Blessing, Progress, May

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• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Sports, Baseball, Growing Up

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• Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.

  Picabo Street

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

  Ike Turner

  Missing, Riding, Causes

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• If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Struggle, America, Korea

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• Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, War, Loss

  "Mandate for Change: The White House Years, 1953-1956". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, pp. 312-313, 1963.

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• Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

  John C. Danforth

  Should, Nations, Great Nations

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• I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

  Ikue Mori

  Musician, Left

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• Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, President, Watches

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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, Cities, Culture

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

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• There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Ghost Stories, Hands, Scary Stories

  "Shigeru Miyamoto talks 'Legend of Zelda',' 'Mariokart'". Interview with Darren Franich, ew.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

  Utada Hikaru

  People, Obsession, Obsessed

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

  Sydney Pollack

  Europe, Yugoslavia, Hollywood

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• On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

  Nathan Deal

  Country, Israel, Hands

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• Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  America, Community, Firsts

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• The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

  Zach Wamp

  Ambition, Russia, Korea

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