Japan Quotes · Page 6

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

— George Mikes

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

— Kenzaburo Oe

I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season.

— Hermann Maier

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

— Tadanobu Asano

I feel that Japan is like my second home; this is where I want to fight.

— Mirko Cro Cop

“Fucking bastard, I'll stab you in the chest with this pencil.”

— Koushun Takami

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

— Alex Cox

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

— Ike Turner

For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe…

— Randy Neugebauer

You have to be able to negotiate our trade deals. You have to be able to negotiate, that's right, with Japan, with…

— Donald Trump

I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other…

— Tamae Watanabe

Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as…

— Fukuzawa Yukichi

I'll just say that America - us included - has a long way to go to catch up with the animated work…

— Bryan Konietzko

We should continue to explain clearly that Japan's past as a peace loving nation would not change in the future.

— Fumio Kishida

“The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through…

— Cynthia Kadohata

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the…

— Takashi Murakami

As a matter of fact 25% of our U.S. investment banking business comes out of our commercial bank. So it's a competitive…

— Jamie Dimon

Japan has good reasons for wanting to transform its relationship with Russia. Tokyo has openly expressed serious fears of a military confrontation…

— Fiona Hill

I like most of the places I've been to, but I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't…

— Britney Spears

The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their…

— Shinzo Abe

I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life…

— Natalie Goldberg

You know, Russia today is, what, 200 million people? In land mass, it's probably 50 times the size [of Japan], in natural…

— Michael Bloomberg

With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I got two marriage proposals from Japan after the Mighty Ducks movies came out. From Japanese girls. Yeah. The nation of Japan.…

— Joshua Jackson

I like doing the shows with Ring of Honor, but I don't want to leave Japan.

— Kazuchika Okada

“In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.”

— Natasha Pulley

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

— Yoshihiko Noda

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

— Claire Cook

I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front.

— Henry L. Stimson

I pinch myself everyday. Japan is a dream come true. The best food, the best people, a real paradise.

— Bob Sapp

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

— Barry Sheene

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

— Leslie Caron

“Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.”

— Helen McCarthy

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

— Nick Cave

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

— Eisaku Sato

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

— Utada Hikaru

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

— Natsume Sōseki

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

— James Blake

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