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Quotes About Japan

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
~ Carlos Ghosn
Japan had an energy crisis. I thought, instead of just worrying about it, I should take some kind of responsibility to provide the solutions.
~ Masayoshi Son
I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.
~ Naoto Kan
I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.
~ Julie Taymor
We've taken Japan's 'idol' music genre of pretty girls singing and dancing and added 'kawaii metal,' which is totally new.
~ Suzuka Nakamoto
Japan has more specialists of Immanuel Kant than Germany does [RIS 2016 Lecture on A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World]
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Allá iban, con mis escupitajos, los bacilos de la tuberculosis que había contraído en Japón y me alegraba imaginar esos bacilos agonizando abrazados bajo el sol tropical.
~ Sh?hei ?oka
Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.
~ Shaun White
Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.
~ Paul W. S. Anderson
European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.
~ John Bruton
On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.
~ Masaharu Morimoto
Night of the Ninjas.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
I realized, too, that a set of unique circumstances had underwritten the stability of the governing consensus of which he had been a part: not just the shared experiences of the war, but also the near unanimity forged by the Cold War and the Soviet threat, and perhaps more important, the unrivaled dominance of the American economy during the fifties and sixties, as Europe and Japan dug themselves out of the postwar rubble.
~ Barack Obama
People like to say the West is a guilt-based culture, while that of Japan is based on shame, with the chief distinction being that the former is an internalized emotion while the latter depends on the presence of a group. But
~ Barry Eisler
A vending machine hung tilted from the wall, advertising laundry soap at fifty yen a packet to customers who might as well have been ghosts.
~ Barry Eisler
Business. I'm an accountant. Once a year I have to come to Japan for some of the firm's local clients." It was a good cover story. No one ever asks follow-up questions when you tell them you're an accountant. They're afraid you might answer.
~ Barry Eisler
People like to say the West is a guilt-based culture, while that of Japan is based on shame, with the chief distinction being that the former is an internalized emotion while the latter depends on the presence of a group.
~ Barry Eisler
I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
~ Leslie Caron
I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
~ Tamae Watanabe
It is generally admitted that Dhyana Buddhism, which was born in India and, after undergoing profound changes, reached full development in China, to be finally adopted by Japan, where it is cultivated as a living tradition to this day, has disclosed unsuspected ways of existence which it is of the utmost importance for us to understand.
~ Eugen Herrigel
When it was released in the 80s in Japan, 'Blade Runner' was actually a series that influenced the Japanese media very much so. I assume that everyone in the anime industry has seen Blade Runner at some point.
~ Shinichiro Watanabe
Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.
~ David Suzuki
In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.
~ Shigeru Yoshida