The Midway air base had been reinforced from Hawaii on the…

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers…

— Barney Ross

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

— Isabella Bird

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were…

— Jack Adams

I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.

— Hidetoshi Nakata

“Iwo Jima is more officially known as “Sulfur Island,” and it lies in a chain of volcanic islands south of the Ogasawara Islands. In…

— Charles River Editors

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it…

— Joan Halifax

“Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game…

— Anonymous

A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

— S. Jay Olshansky

Hollering at this Japanese Girl, Asian Mommy. But its too soon for Japanese Girls? Too Tsunami?

— Childish Gambino

I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese...they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a…

— Ian Graham

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to…

— Yoshihiko Noda

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.

— Masaru Ibuka

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

— Chester W. Nimitz

“Despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people…

— Dave Barry

Japanese food is healthy, but it doesn't make you bigger.

— Kei Nishikori