The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so… In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really. — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share Image
Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway.… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract. — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses… — Tadashi Shoji Copy Share Image
People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it,… — J. Carter Brown Copy Share Image
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
In Japan, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well. So they have problem communicating with computers, so they really feel that… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived under Japanese colonial rule until she was nine. Korea, still united and whole, was colonized in 1910. During this… — Crystal Hana Kim Copy Share Image
The northern Japanese ramen is characterised by its miso base. In the south, the ramen may steer more towards a seafood-based broth,… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
My favorite whisky bar in the world is in my adopted Bangkok. A refined and secretive Japanese speakeasy among the girly bars… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond “awesome” and “sucks”, which for a vast range of human… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the… — Satoshi Tajiri Copy Share Image
Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let… — Craig L. Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and… — Saffron Aldridge Copy Share Image
Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop,… — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster. — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We… — Yoshihiko Noda Copy Share Image
Mario: An Italian plumber that was created by Japanese people, who speaks English, but looks like a Mexican. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony. — Howard Stringer 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
“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
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
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
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
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors. — Charles C. Mann 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
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
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
