Japan Quotes · Page 11

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

— Tadanobu Asano

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

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

— Helen McCarthy

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

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

— Claire Cook

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

— Bob Sapp

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

— Emily Greene Balch

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them…

— Haruki Murakami

So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the…

— Yaya Han

I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would…

— Nicolas Cage

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that…

— Daisaku Ikeda

I'll be honest - I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be…

— Scott Adkins

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

— Sydney Pollack

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European…

— Hideki Tojo

We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our…

— Seungri

“The Professor noted two nymphs with strawberries on their heads, a DayGlo Amish lady, a mustachioed man in a rainbow apron. He…

— La Carmina

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Martin Jacques

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

— David Chang

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is…

— Townsend Harris

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United…

— Kenzaburo Oe

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Henry L. Stimson

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

— Yoshihiko Noda

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

— Natasha Pulley

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

— Kazuchika Okada

“Luna Sea’s music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy.”

— Josephine Yun

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

— Christian Tschumi

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

— Britney Spears

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

— Doc Hastings

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

— Ken Hakuta

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

I am stoked to go over to Japan and experience that culture.

— Adam Cole

My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

— Douglas MacArthur

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

— David Suzuki

“This is kaiju !" Yojiro barked. "When did they ever give a damn about adhering to science!”

— Hiroshi Yamamoto