Japan Quotes - Page 3

• I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.40, Ballantine Books

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• My clothes are very popular in Japan.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Clothes, Very Popular

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• The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.

  William D. Leahy

  Fashion, Children, War

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• My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Years, Opposites

  "Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature: Lagerkvist-Pontoppidan". Book by Thomson Gale, 2007.

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• Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.

  Sadako Ogata

  Country, Military, Believe

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has paid reparations and so on. Japan, in contrast, apologizes for nothing and has paid no reparations, with one exception: It pays reparations to the United States, but not to Asia.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Asia, United States

  Source: www.madre.org

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• My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.

  Takashi Murakami

  Anime, Space, Age

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

  Hirohito

  Military, Effort, Tears

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• Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

  Uesugi Kenshin

  Death, Warrior, Wish

  "Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture". Book by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, p. 188, 1970.

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• Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Art, Nature, Secret

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• Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Art, Breaking Rules

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• The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.

  Shinzo Abe

  Alliances, Irreplaceable

  "Shinzo Abe Talk Asia interview". www.cnn.com. April 30, 2007.

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• The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

  Lucy Liu

  Sexy, Different, Kimonos

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• I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more I try, the more hilarious it is.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Offending, Trying, Looks

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• There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Dream, Bridges, Darkness

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• There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Chinese, Special, Different

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• One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

  Miriam

  Travel, Delicate, Ifs

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• It would be really nice to have a venue stop in Japan someday. Japan would be perfect for it.

  Travis Rice

  Nice, Perfect, Would Be

  Source: www.outdoorjapan.com

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• He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek in the cold to get there, the monks would offer to sell you a cup of coffee. You had a choice: There was a two-dollar cup - or a two-hundred- dollar cup. When pressed to explain the difference, the monks were reported to say, 'A hundred and ninety-eight dollars.'

  Steve Perry

  Coffee, Eight, Two

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• I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan's backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.

  Travis Rice

  Getting Lost, Finding Myself, Wasabi

  Source: www.outdoorjapan.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 method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way, it's possibly to bring out one's individuality. If this idea appeals to you, I call on you to try drawing your own manga.

  Akira Toriyama

  Art, Ideas, Drawing

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• Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Inspiration, Source

  "Nicola Formichetti on His Latest Muse". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.elle.com. February 6, 2013.

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• One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Important, Feels

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

  Jon Courtenay Grimwood

  Differences, Half, Crime

  Jon Courtenay Grimwood (2017). “End Of The World Blues”, p.230, Hachette UK

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