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Quotes About Japan

My favourite tree was the Weeping Scholar Tree. I thought it must come from Japan. They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disemboweled themselves when anything went wrong.
~ Sylvia Plath
Japan has the oldest population in the world, and the Japanese go to the doctor more than anybody—about fourteen office visits per year, compared with five for the average American. And yet Japan spends about $3,400 per person on health care each year; we burn through $7,400 per person.
~ T. R. Reid
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
I'm teaching English in Japan next year," she said matter-of-factly, "It's going to be amazing." Not "I'm thinking about..." or "I've applied but..." I AM.
~ Junot Diaz
You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.
~ K. Eric Drexler
Japan. "One can only imagine," Blackett wrote, "the hurry with which the two bombs—the only two existing—were whisked across the Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki just in time, but only just, to insure that the Japanese Government surrendered to American forces alone.
~ Kai Bird
This may seem labouring the obvious, but in Japan one meets intelligent people who claim that 'logic' is something invented in the West to allow Westerners to win discussions. Indeed, the belief is widespread that the Japanese can as happily do without logic now as they supposedly have for centuries past.
~ Karel Van Wolferen
The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.
~ Shinzo Abe
I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that's where I really mastered what I was doing.
~ Finn Balor
I spent a lot of time in Japan. To me, I felt like my career was kind of marooned out there. I didn't realize the extent of the reach that New Japan had in America and around the world.
~ Finn Balor
I was the last of the British style that was a big thing in Japan.
~ William Regal
In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime.
~ Hiro Murai
When I think about it, if somebody was to pass Pete Rose's record just playing in Japan, that would be a bigger accomplishment because of the few games they play over there.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
Shooting in Japan was one of the best working experiences of my entire life.
~ Aidy Bryant
Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.
~ Amy Chozick
I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.
~ Nick Diaz
I'm living the American dream, but I'm in Japan.
~ Bob Sapp
Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.
~ Bootsy Collins
Football in Japan is highly looked upon, even more than in the rest of Asia.
~ Lukas Podolski
I think our choreography, which is easy to follow, played a huge role in achieving fame in Japan.
~ Dahyun
Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.
~ Shusaku Endo
Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.
~ John C. Danforth
I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.
~ Billy Higgins
Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.
~ Trevor Dunn