Quotes About Japanese

Kombu isn't the only food rich in glutamic acid, though it may be the richest.

By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Ando's austerity is very much at home with the Japanese aesthetic of limited furnishings and an avoidance of the clutter that so often charac terizes Western homes . The purity of the space invites contemplation of the view , and the architecture is the device that permits such thoughtful observance .

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know all the while that it is an illusion.

Japanese "indifference to the Mystery of the Universe," my cousin's great-grandfather was wise enough to add, "is that which enables them to give more time and to spend more energy on the solution of the problems nearer at hand." · That same indifference binds them together, because there's no need for individual speculation or debate in a choir; Shinto, lacking arguments, cannot be refuted.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

My favourite Ghibli film is maybe lesser known: the 'Tale of Princess Kaguya.' It's a different visual style, by a different director to most of the films, but it's really beautiful, and an old Japanese fable brought to life in an almost moving-watercolour kind of way.

When I trained with the Japanese team, there we'd be singing Oasis songs at the top of our voices at the top of the jumps. People thought we were daft.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

Feeling they were being treated as inferiors by the West, and suffering from American and European racism, the Japanese concluded that they had to make their own place in the world, using force to pursue the manifest destiny of the `imperial way'.

The great tea masters were concerned to make of the divine wonder an experienced moment; then out of the teahouse the influence was carried into the home; and out of the home distilled into the nation. During the long and peaceful Tokugawa period (1603-1868), before the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854, the texture of Japanese life became so imbued with significant formalization that existence to the slightest detail was a conscious expression of eternity, the landscape itself a shrine. p144

The spectacular escalation of violence unleashed in the 1930s and the 1940s was a testament to the kind of force that the insurgents believed themselves to be up against. It was precisely the looming potential, the future dominance of American capitalist democracy, that was the common factor impelling Hitler, Stalin, the Italian Fascists and their Japanese counterparts to such radical action.

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

One can not deny this merit to the Japanese—a great love for little children, and a talent for amusing them, for making them laugh, inventing comical toys for them, making the morning of their life happy; for a specialty in dressing them, arranging their heads, and giving to the whole personage the most fascinating appearance possible. It is the only thing I really like about this country: the babies and the manner in which they are understood.

Uang Jaya! Jaya! Seratus Jepang, satu republik, uang jaya - Kakek Mo

Susanoo-no-Mikoto plucked one of the hairs from his beard and transformed it into a sugi tree. Then he plucked a hair from his breast and turned it into a cypress tree. He took one from his buttock and turned that into a black pine tree, and one from his eyebrow, which he turned into a laurel.

Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.

In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.