Japan Quotes - Page 12

• Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

  Harry Seidler

  Summer, Earthquakes, Climate

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• You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.

  Jamie Dimon

  Culture, Way, Path

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

  Brian Mulroney

  West Germany, United States, Partners

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• Selling five million units in less than 14 months means DS is the fastest among any game machines ever launched in Japan to hit that level. To achieve this rapid growth, we were required not only to go after frequent game players, but to reel back people who had left games and to make video games enjoyable for those who had not played games at all.

  Satoru Iwata

  Mean, Player, Games

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• I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

  Shinzo Abe

  Giving, Politician, Reason

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• But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
  Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

  Steve Goodman

  Years, League, Bombs

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• The "third arrow" (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary.

  Jamie Dimon

  Technology, Arrows, Important

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

  Shinzo Abe

  Sea, Land, People

  " Japanese nationalist tipped to be PM, raising fears of tensions with China" by Justin McCurry, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.

  Jamie Dimon

  Europe And America, Years, Lasts

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Part of [Japanese companies] growing and expanding around the world is ... going to help the Japanese keep their lifestyles [despite Japan's] demographics, as a declining population, and [to] make it more conducive to women to go to work, I think, is a plus.

  Jamie Dimon

  Thinking, Around The World, Population

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I certainly have more enthusiasm when I'm dealing with marginalized people in Japan, and as a creative person I am part of that marginalization.

  Shinobu Yaguchi

  People, Creative, Enthusiasm

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

  Shinzo Abe

  Taken, Heart, People

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• Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is Japan, which threw out almost all the dharma, and just kept that essence, which spoke to them.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Country, Buddhism, Essence

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• Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Iraq, United States, Dollars

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• Just like we did in Japan, in South Korea. Just like is happening in Iraq. Laura [Bush] and I feel very strongly that if the United States were to leave.

  George W. Bush

  Korea, Iraq, United States

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• North Korea has nukes. Japan has a problem with that. I mean, they have a big problem with that. Maybe they would in fact be better off if they defend themselves from North Korea.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Korea, Nukes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

  Donald Trump

  Important, Defense, Alliances

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I just want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent.

  Donald Trump

  America, Allies, United States

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and China, as well as intensives on Buddhism that focus on the work of Zen Master Dogen and Ryokan, as well as on many of the Mahayana sutras.

  Joan Halifax

  Teaching, Buddhism, Years

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• We started out making a film [ The Fourth Phase] about the incredible snow we get at home in Wyoming, the journey soon macroed out into this epic 16,000 mile trip around the North Pacific, taking us to locations in Japan, Alaska, the Kamchatka Peninsula in far-eastern Russia, and back to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

  Travis Rice

  Home, Journey, Epic

  Source: www.snowmagazine.com

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• It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points
  of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Two, Germany

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• In my opinion, there are two focal points of the war danger. The first focal point is the Far East zone of Japan. The second focal point in the zone is Germany.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Two, Germany

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• I was a Air Force kid. I got out of high school and I decided to join the military. I traveled and I was international before I got home. I did my thing in Japan, and I did it on big stages.

  Donnis

  Military, Home, School

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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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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• According to the supermarkets, there is no such thing as “out of season.” Berries in the middle of February? Why not? Seafood flown in from Japan? Sure. While it all adds up to appetizing and varied meals throughout the year, regardless of the weather, it comes with a price tag - both ethical and financial.

  Homaro Cantu

  Years, Price Tag, Weather

  "Zero Mile Gastronomy: This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Garden" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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