My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well. — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
“I don’t know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West. — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level. — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
“My American and Japanese personalities are distinct, and I carry myself differently depending on which language I’m using and which mode I’m… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE... — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! — John Belushi Copy Share Image
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it. — John Roos Copy Share Image
The Japanese people and their country left a huge impression on my wife and I, and we found it difficult to say… — Diego Forlan Copy Share Image
On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes,… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
If I ever see those pilots who dropped the bombs on me - or any American pilots - I would say to… — Phan Thi Kim Phuc Copy Share Image
When asked by Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe in mid-1941 concerning the outcome of a possible war with the United States, Yamamoto made… — Adm Yamamoto Copy Share Image
“So a new element darkled in their already darkling mood: a somber, deep-rooted bitterness which would grow and grow until it would… — James Jones Copy Share Image
I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“It is the experience of those who have had to do with the various peoples of the Far East that it is… — Homer B. Hulbert Copy Share Image
During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“I also fear an attack directly upon us which shall be considerably aided by the French colonists! I therefore support your plan… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“TF-16 returned to Pearl Harbor on May 26 in good order, with one huge exception: Admiral Halsey, the sixty-year-old commander, arrived back… — Dale A. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The previous day, December 6, Sprague had upbraided his crew for their sloppy performance during an intensive series of drills. He broke… — James D. Hornfischer Copy Share Image
“Early histories have often overstated the degree of intelligence detail available to the Americans at this stage. Fletcher rightly expected the Japanese… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“In an episode characteristic of the U.S. tactical intelligence effort during Midway, the attacks on this modest force had repeatedly been reported… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“The Manyōshū is Japanese in the vital sense that the language in which it was written was Japanese, a language quite different… — Richard H.P. Mason Copy Share Image
“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.' — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Kanban, while Japanese, is less metaphorical than Drum-Buffer-Rope.” — David J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“The image of Japan that obsesses otaku is in fact no more than a U.S. produced imitation.” — Hiroki Azuma Copy Share Image
