Country Quote by Naoto Kan

Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk…

— Jack Kilby

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

— Shigeru Yoshida

The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the…

— Pico Iyer

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

— Sadako Ogata

Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World…

— Steven Spielberg

“Unless Japan is prepared to see Japanese blood being spilled, unless Japan is prepared to see Japanese soldiers return to Japan in body bags,…

— Declan Hayes

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue…

— Craig L. Thomas

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

— Chuck Grassley

It was as if Japan had fallen victim to a case of collective amnesia.

— Peter Goldman

“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me at that time. It was getting the war over with that bothered me. So I wasn’t worried particularly about…

— Ronald Schaffer

I was the last of the British style that was a big thing in Japan.

— William Regal