Japan Quotes · Page 4

Wrestling in Japan is very much sports based.

— Neville

I look Asian. I need to go to Japan.

— Javier Camara

I am very proud to represent Japan.

— Kei Nishikori

I go a lot to Korea and Japan.

— Hilary Hahn

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

— Kenzaburo Oe

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

— Tadanobu Asano

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

— Eisaku Sato

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

— Nick Cave

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

— Helen McCarthy

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

— Bob Sapp

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

— Henry L. Stimson

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

— Claire Cook

We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have…

— Vladimir Putin

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least…

— Peter Diamandis

I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What…

— Yoshihiko Noda

I just want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent.

— Donald Trump

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of…

— F. Sionil José

The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was…

— Lucy Liu

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is…

— Prem Rawat

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from…

— Townsend Harris

I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell…

— Pete Docter

I didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge,…

— Muhammad Ali

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade…

— David Cameron

The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions…

— Martin Jacques

“The physical impact of taiko music, along with the sheer visual poetry of a choreographed ensemble presenting its music in perfect synchrony,…

— Gil Asakawa

“Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she…

— Ruth Benedict

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late…

— Shigeru Yoshida

We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the…

— Henry L. Stimson

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

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

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

— Yayoi Kusama

“I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.”

— Abigail Friedman

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

— Dick Cavett

I think it's a rite of passage that the minute you land in Japan, you have to go to a karaoke bar.

— Bishop Briggs

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to…

— Daniel Radcliffe