All Quotes

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
‐‐ P. J. Soles

Japan has very long hospital stays. Ah, it's almost a rest cure. People in Japan who are hospitalized might lie around the hospital for a week or two just to take a rest.
‐‐ Marcia Angell

Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.
‐‐ Paul Watson

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.
‐‐ John C. Danforth

Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.
‐‐ John Roos

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.
‐‐ Yoshihiko Noda

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
‐‐ Dan Quayle

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.
‐‐ Craig L. Thomas

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
‐‐ Natan Sharansky

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.
‐‐ Kelly Jones

Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
‐‐ Yoshihiko Noda

Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.
‐‐ Roman Coppola

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.
‐‐ Eisaku Sato

Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.
‐‐ Yoshiro Mori

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.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more 'balanced' global economy that does not rely so heavily on the U.S. consumer.
‐‐ Robert Zoellick

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.
‐‐ Yoshihiko Noda

Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
‐‐ Tadashi Yanai

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.
‐‐ Toshihiko Fukui

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.
‐‐ Harry Seidler

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.
‐‐ Saxby Chambliss

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization of the rule of Right. Now the question remains whether Japan will be the hawk of the Western civilization of the rule of Might, or the tower of strength of the Orient.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

Japan will help vulnerable developing nations make progress on emissions. In fact, we pledged assistance of about $16 billion over three years from 2013 and met this goal in about a year and a half.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
‐‐ Tadao Ando

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
‐‐ Tadashi Yanai

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!
‐‐ Masaharu Morimoto

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
‐‐ David Mitchell

Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.
‐‐ Jane Goldman

Japanese is a very difficult language.
‐‐ David Anders

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.
‐‐ Isamu Akasaki

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
‐‐ Charles C. Mann

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
‐‐ Takashi Murakami

Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
‐‐ Tao Okamoto

Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.
‐‐ Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.'
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.
‐‐ Fujio Mitarai

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
‐‐ Tadao Ando

Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

Japanimation is a whole different art form.
‐‐ Lucy Liu

Jardine is the largest dealer of Mercedes in the world. They also sell cars for two or three Japanese makers.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.
‐‐ LaToya London