Japan Quotes

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

It looks like they've been watching old Japan tapes!

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

America cannot afford to defend Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, and many other places.

My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

Just like we did in Japan, in South Korea. Just like is happening in Iraq. Laura [Bush] and I feel very strongly that if the United States were to leave.

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.

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.

I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

I've done Last Samurai in Japan, in LA, in New Zealand. Even in Japan it is very hard to shoot, because there's been so many changes. Only around a temple can we shoot.

It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from the developed world - Japan, America, Germany, Britain.

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia.

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.

Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me.

I was an actor in Japan and I'm a regular on about three shows. I'm grateful for all of it. My personal activities like that help Big Bang as a whole as well.

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.

According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.

Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe.

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.

Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.

I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made Ringu, and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.

Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues.