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Quotes About Japan

I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world.
~ Sasha Cohen
I remember Arsene Wenger very well from our time in Japan. I like the way his teams play, with an offensive mentality - it is a philosophy I share. I think he gets the best out of the players he has, and this is the key to his success.
~ Zico
When I lived in Japan, I only noticed the bad aspects of the country. I didn't really like Japan then, but when I moved overseas, I was able to appreciate the good side more.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
The trade-off between price and quality does not exist in Japan. Rather, the idea that high quality brings on cost reduction is widely accepted.1
~ Tom DeMarco
I got the style but not the grace I got the clothes but not the face I got the bread but not the butter I got the winda but not the shutter But I'm big in Japan, I'm big in Japan
~ Tom Waits
Jay had learned that in Japan, sushi chefs might put a touch of wasabi inside a nigiri, using a larger dab of wasabi with fatty fish, and a smaller one with lean. But they never served extra wasabi on the side. They would serve a pinch on the side with sashimi—plain raw fish, without rice. But diners certainly weren't supposed to mix the wasabi into their soy sauce and apply it indiscriminately.
~ Unknown
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
~ Oscar Wilde
Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.
~ Unknown
Japanimation is a whole different art form.
~ Lucy Liu
dressed to kill Koyasan
~ Darren Shan
The Enigma of Japanese Power, by Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen
~ Dave Barry
The drastic application of economic sanctions in July 1941 brought to a head the internal crisis in Japanese politics.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I had a myocardial infarction that registered at the oceanography lab in Tokyo.
~ Woody Allen
Aku akan menanamkan bibitbya dan Jepang akan memupuknya.
~ Cindy Adams
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
~ Hideki Tojo
On the eighth of December in that year, the war between Japan and the United States began.
~ Hiroo Onoda
Not long after that the large search party of 1959 arrived from Japan to look for us. "The Americans seem to be starting another one of their fake rescue operations," I said. "What a nuisance!" growled Kozuka. "Let's move somewhere where it's quiet.
~ Hiroo Onoda
When I returned to Japan, I learned that it really had been my brother.
~ Hiroo Onoda
We calculated that Japan would have found it advantageous to set Mao Tse-tung up as the leader of the New China, because this would make the vast sums of money held by wealthy Chinese financiers available to Japan. We assumed that to secure Japan's support, Mao had agreed to drive the Americans and English out of China and to cooperate with the new Japanese army.
~ Hiroo Onoda
There are several theories as to why the reappearance of Onoda created such a stir. Mine is that Onoda showed signs of being something that defeat in World War II had deprived Japan of: a genuine war hero.
~ Hiroo Onoda
America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!
~ Homer Simpson
In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
Manga, as a medium, is very different from cinema. Its creators are free to express themselves with harsh, cruel stories, and they enjoy vast distribution throughout Japan.
~ Takashi Miike