Japanese Quotes - page 17

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations. (William Kirby)
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that. View quote
Yoshihiko Noda
Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood! View quote
Zhang Ziyi
I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person. View quote
Tommy Lasorda
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans. View quote
Jay Inslee
So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress. View quote
Jay Inslee
Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. View quote
Michael Pollan
I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty. View quote
Dakota Fanning
We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. View quote
Harry S. Truman
We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics. (Yoko Ono)
In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good. View quote
David Sedaris
To put it briefly: the evidence is quite overwhelming on this matter. The Japanese had sent an envoy (Ambassador Sato) to Moscow (still officially a neutral) to work out a negotiated surrender. View quote
Howard Zinn
Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
Free-market economics and tolerance for Chinese violations of trade and commercial protocols did not result in either the liberalization or the democratization of China. Over the past two decades, we have been told that the Japanese, the European Union, and the Chinese successively would eclipse America with their respective superior paradigms. View quote
Victor Davis Hanson
[A] Juan Lopez from Oaxaca is freely accepted as a U.S. citizen in a way that a white Bob Jones would never fully be embraced as a citizen of Mexico, a country whose constitution still expressly sets out racially chauvinistic guidelines that govern immigration law. Someone who appears African or European would have a hard time fully integrating as a citizen in Chinese, Korean, or Japanese society, in a way not true of Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese in America. The world assumes that in America a president, attorney general, secretary of state, or Supreme Court justice can be black; but it would be as surprised to find whites as high public officials in Zimbabwe as to find a black as prime minister or foreign minister in Sweden... View quote
Victor Davis Hanson
The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing. View quote
Shinzō Abe
To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it. View quote
Shinzō Abe
Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. View quote
Shinzō Abe
Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. ... The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don't agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. ... I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor! (Yukio Mishima)
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside. View quote
Haruki Murakami
When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese. View quote
Haruki Murakami
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. View quote
Haruki Murakami
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. View quote
Haruki Murakami