Japan Quotes · Page 12

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.

— Britney Spears

I was the first person to export Teflon-coated ironing board covers to Japan.

— Ken Hakuta

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

— Doc Hastings

“Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.”

— Christian Tschumi

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

— James Blake

“From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman.”

— Natsume Sōseki

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

— Utada Hikaru

“As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life.”

— The Japan Foundation

I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening…

— Shinzo Abe

“To gain mastery you must unite the qualities of spirit, strength, technique and the ability to take the initiative. (Page 31).”

— Sadami Yamada

We do not trade territories although concluding a peace treaty with Japan is certainly a key issue and we would like to…

— Vladimir Putin

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru,…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a…

— Anonymous

There are two types of depreciation. There is one where you're manipulating currencies. And that's not what Japan is doing.

— Jamie Dimon

The East-West Center directly supports the U.S. rebalance to the Asia Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue with countries in the…

— Brian Schatz

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the…

— Chen Shui-bian

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product.…

— Julie Taymor

This is the large range of issues we have to discuss [with Shinzō Abe] and make a decision on each one of…

— Vladimir Putin

There are many things to admire about Japan but this is the one thing I love the most and probably the only…

— David Chang

After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though…

— Martin Jacques

As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan…

— John Brisben Walker

I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given…

— Brian Wildsmith

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents.…

— Steven Seagal

Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and…

— Vladimir Putin

The bond between America and Japan and the friendship between our two peoples runs very, very deep.

— Donald Trump

If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.

— Mark Zuckerberg

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

— Quentin S. Crisp

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

— Yasunari Kawabata

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

— Seungri

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

— Tadashi Yanai

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

— Patricia Schroeder

We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Paul Watson

I really think that Japan should take a role as mediator between the U.S. and North Korea.

— Antonio Inoki

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

— John C. Danforth

Unlike most kids in Japan, I didn't have a dream. I wasn't ambitious.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.

— Masayoshi Son

India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

— Yoshiro Mori

Japan is the place that made me in the MMA world, and I love the country and the Japanese people.

— Mauricio Rua