Brothels Quote by Niall Ferguson

Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I don’t think Japan’s…

— Amartya Sen

There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to…

— Noam Chomsky

“In the early months of World War II, San Francisco's Fill-more district, or the Western Addition, experienced a visible revolution. On the surface it…

— Maya Angelou

Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this country. Segregation was legal.

— Linda Sarsour

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Our ramshackle bath drove our neighbors wild. To them, it was a symbol of Japanese decadence. Bathing was an act of bourgeois”

— Masaji Ishikawa

“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western…

— Niall Ferguson

“From my perspective, there wasn’t much difference between a socialist movement, a nationalist movement, and a brutal brawl in the black market. All of…

— Masaji Ishikawa

I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.

— Makoto Shinkai

“Despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people…

— Dave Barry

“The occupation of Japan was the last immodest exercise in the colonial conceit known as “the white man’s burden.”2”

— John W. Dower

I think it is one of the common themes for many Japanese people to choose where to live: Tokyo or their hometown.

— Makoto Shinkai