Japan Quotes - page 2

Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes! (Iwane Matsui)
I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon. View quote
William Thomas Beckford
I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded. View quote
Bobby Fischer
I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values. View quote
Michael J. Sandel
While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States. View quote
Lewis M. Branscomb
The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue. View quote
Seishirō Itagaki
The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started. View quote
Seishirō Itagaki
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system. View quote
Robert Mundell
The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society. (Romano Prodi)
You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors. View quote
Steven Seagal
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. View quote
Tadao Ando
The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. View quote
Howard Gardner
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films. View quote
Junot Diaz
Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. View quote
Eisaku Sato
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
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. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China. View quote
Vint Cerf
In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it. (Tite Kubo)
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous. View quote
Kenichi Ohmae
Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons. View quote
Yoshiro Mori
On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship. View quote
Nathan Deal
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up. View quote
Ichiro Suzuki