Quotes About Japanese

Thence, we drove a few miles across a swamp, along a raised shell road, with a canal on one hand and a dense wood on the other; and here and there, in the distance, a ragged and angular-limbed and moss-bearded cypress, top standing out, clear cut against the sky, and as quaint of form as the apple-trees in Japanese pictures—such was our course and the surroundings of it.

This was what we Japanese called the "onion life"—peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Hitler insisted on the superiority of the Aryan race, but his closest allies were the Italians, and he accorded the Japanese the dubious accolade of

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

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

watering the Japanese anemones naked again last week and you know what the police said about that. Liv x The last

If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn't stand a chance.

It's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness? —ADOLF HITLER

haragei—the art of balance and power emanating from the lower belly. Haragei was the basis of all Japanese martial arts, from sumo to karate to the almost extinct harakei. The

Umami is the savoury meatiness in seaweed and miso and soy sauce. It is, to a large extent, the concept that enables Japanese cuisine to be healthy and attractive at the same time.

From the perspective of almost everyone else in the world, the Japanese have an enviable relationship with food. Japanese cuisine - with its focus on fresh vegetables, even fresher fish, delicate soups and exquisitely presented rice dishes - has a global reputation for healthiness.

The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.

There are signs that the Japanese themselves consider their excellent cuisine as an essential part of what it means to be Japanese.

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.

I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

President Roosevelt provoked the Japanese to attack us at Pearl Harbor.

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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.