Able Quote by Pat Morita

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

— Pat Morita

By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil;…

— Stephen Hunter

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

— Stanley Ralph Ross

In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of…

— Junichiro Koizumi

When I lived in Japan, I only noticed the bad aspects of the country. I didn't really like Japan then, but when I moved…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing…

— Eisaku Sato

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype…

— Ricky Schroder

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

— Clive James

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of…

— Noam Chomsky

Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place,…

— William Gibson

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number…

— Francis Ford Coppola

When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt