Japan Quotes · Page 12

We need to do a thorough examination of whether Japan's defence capability is adequate or not.

— Fumio Kishida

I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.

— Sasha Cohen

The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.”

— Ruth Ozeki

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

— Billy Higgins

My favorite knife is from Miyakoya in Japan - I have one in each of my restaurants.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I had a great time in Japan and the other places that I worked.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

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

— Paul Watson

If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint…

— Vladimir Putin

I have friends from China - by the way I love China. I love Japan. I have people that buy my apartments,…

— Donald Trump

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of…

— Joichi Ito

In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity…

— W. Edwards Deming

I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label.…

— Kelly Jones

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full…

— Romano Prodi

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

— John Bruton

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

“After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything…

— Ryū Murakami

For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never…

— Martin Jacques

I've been to Japan but I've never been to China, I'd love to go to China. I don't know, I like to…

— Ben Stiller

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the…

— Ruth Ozeki

[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so…

— Warren MacKenzie

The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee…

— Stephen Hunter

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result…

— Adam Hamilton

I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been…

— Sadako Ogata

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

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

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

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

It's no secret that I love the country, and Japan has always felt like a second home to me.

— Kenny Omega

Donald Trump's idea that more nations should get nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea.

— Tim Kaine

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

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

— Daniel Boulud

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

— Quentin S. Crisp

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

— Mark Zuckerberg

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

— The Japan Foundation

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

— Donald Trump

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

— Yasunari Kawabata

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

— Tadashi Yanai