“The overriding sense of Tokyo...is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way:… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I grew up in the countryside in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo. — Nobu Matsuhisa Copy Share Image
A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record… — Thomas Bangalter Copy Share Image
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It's been a year and nine month since we broke up. It's almost the second spring since then. When I turn 20… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic… — Hayao Miyazaki 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
Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I always wanted to go to Tokyo. Even when I was a kid, it was one destination I always wanted to go… — Big E Copy Share Image
I grew up in a low-income area of Tokyo. Like most homes in Tokyo, ours was small. It was a free-standing, two-family… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
“Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I remember my very first encounter with Japan. At that time, I was Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg. Out of nowhere, Japan's… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
