I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture. — Matthew Moy Copy Share Image
Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a… — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms. — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions. — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen… — Jerry Della Femina Copy Share Image
My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
I often look ridiculous in Japan. There's really no way to eat in Japan, particularly kaiseki in a traditional ryokan, without offending… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“they had to deal with heavy artillery being fired at them by well-hidden units. The Japanese would open the steel doors to… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea,… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten.… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata,… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy,… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead! — Clive James Copy Share Image
Seeing so many comments on our YouTube channel from people all over the world, even if they don't understand Japanese, made me… — Suzuka Nakamoto Copy Share Image
The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview. — Morinosuke Kawaguchi Copy Share Image
The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is,… — J. P. McEvoy Copy Share Image
Jardine is the largest dealer of Mercedes in the world. They also sell cars for two or three Japanese makers. — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us,… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese,… — Martin Yan Copy Share Image
I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual. — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
My personal fave is 'The Japanese Wife', because I think I achieved a lot of what I wanted to do. I wanted… — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in. — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The word love carries the same vibration in any language. You probably know this guy, you probably had dinner with him yesterday.… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I'm Japanese, of course, but spending so long in America has made me into a different kind of person. — Kei Nishikori Copy Share Image
“To be able to use the Japanese tongue as a Japanese uses it, one would need to be born again, and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Japanese people have a strong connection with nature and the ocean and a huge respect for them. — Daniel Berehulak Copy Share Image
In Japan, the way they act at shows is very different from home because they don't yell, they clap for about 10… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
