Top Japan Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Japan quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Amy Waldman
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.
- Amy Waldman
Collection: Japan
Image of Hayao Miyazaki
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
- Hayao Miyazaki
Collection: Japan
Image of Nobuo Uematsu
Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan.
- Nobuo Uematsu
Collection: Japan
Image of Ruth Benedict
The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.
- Ruth Benedict
Collection: Japan
Image of Paul Theroux
In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.
- Paul Theroux
Collection: Japan
Image of Okakura Kakuzo
In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.
- Okakura Kakuzo
Collection: Japan
Image of Taeyang
We've also started promoting in Japan, and compared to TVXQ sunbaes, we still have to secure a place. We all like TVXQ very much. We hope this time we'll use the chance to become more intimate with the members.
- Taeyang
Collection: Japan
Image of Ikue Mori
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
- Ikue Mori
Collection: Japan
Image of Sadako Ogata
Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.
- Sadako Ogata
Collection: Japan
Image of Hideki Tojo
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia
- Hideki Tojo
Collection: Japan
Image of Akio Morita
America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
- Akio Morita
Collection: Japan
Image of Kenichi Ohmae
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.
- Kenichi Ohmae
Collection: Japan
Image of Takeshi Kitano
The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film [Takeshis'], I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.
- Takeshi Kitano
Collection: Japan
Image of Michael Leiter
The language of North Korea is always bombastic. But what has really changed is the acceleration of their nuclear program, the likelihood that they have more and more weapons, and the acceleration of the testing of ballistic missiles in very, very aggressive ways towards Japan.
- Michael Leiter
Collection: Japan
Image of Hiroyuki Sanada
I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.
- Hiroyuki Sanada
Collection: Japan
Image of Hiroyuki Sanada
This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.
- Hiroyuki Sanada
Collection: Japan
Image of Hiroyuki Sanada
I've done Last Samurai in Japan, in LA, in New Zealand. Even in Japan it is very hard to shoot, because there's been so many changes. Only around a temple can we shoot.
- Hiroyuki Sanada
Collection: Japan
Image of Hazel Henderson
The US economy, because it's so energy wasteful, is much less efficient than either the European or Japanese economies. It takes us twice as much energy to produce a unit of GDP as it does in Europe and Japan. So, we're fundamentally less efficient and therefore less competitive, and the sooner we begin to tighten up, the better it will be for our economy and society.
- Hazel Henderson
Collection: Japan
Image of Park Bom
Whenever I go overseas I buy funny eyelashes. For example the same brand that are in Japan and England are different styles. So I bought both.
- Park Bom
Collection: Japan
Image of Louis Farrakhan
God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.
- Louis Farrakhan
Collection: Japan
Image of Rita Gelman
Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe.
- Rita Gelman
Collection: Japan
Image of Naoto Kan
This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.
- Naoto Kan
Collection: Japan
Image of Barry Eisler
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
- Barry Eisler
Collection: Japan
Image of Wayne Wonder
Well, Japanese fans braced me since 1991 that was my first time I have been to Japan. So I know that Japanese fans has supported me over the years. So it just a lot of love and Wayne Wonder will release more music, more music and more music!
- Wayne Wonder
Collection: Japan
Image of Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Collection: Japan
Image of David Milne
Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.
- David Milne
Collection: Japan
Image of Thelma Drake
We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.
- Thelma Drake
Collection: Japan
Image of Paul W. S. Anderson
Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.
- Paul W. S. Anderson
Collection: Japan
Image of Cathy Davidson
Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.
- Cathy Davidson
Collection: Japan
Image of Shintaro Ishihara
Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.
- Shintaro Ishihara
Collection: Japan
Image of Mark Zandi
Global central banks are working hard to lift their economies through an aggressively easy monetary policy. The ECB [European Central Bank] and BOJ [Bank of Japan] are buying tens of billions of bonds and other financial securities each month in an effort to stimulate their economies, which is pushing down rates everywhere, including in the U.S.
- Mark Zandi
Collection: Japan
Image of Shinzo Abe
The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.
- Shinzo Abe
Collection: Japan
Image of Shinzo Abe
While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.
- Shinzo Abe
Collection: Japan
Image of Yuan Shikai
China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.
- Yuan Shikai
Collection: Japan
Image of Takashi Murakami
The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.
- Takashi Murakami
Collection: Japan
Image of Junichiro Koizumi
Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues.
- Junichiro Koizumi
Collection: Japan
Image of Anita Sarkeesian
The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.
- Anita Sarkeesian
Collection: Japan
Image of Henry Rosovsky
English is not the primary language for universities in China, Korea, and Japan, but they are being evaluated on the basis of publications in English and courses taught in English.
- Henry Rosovsky
Collection: Japan
Image of Steve Kimock
I guess my favorite way to travel is in a car, especially if you get to go some place cool. The bullet train in Japan is cool; but overall, driving through certain areas, like the desert in the United States, or the Black Forest in Germany, you feel the nature unfolding.
- Steve Kimock
Collection: Japan
Image of Doc Brown
No wonder this circuit failed. It says 'Made in Japan'.
- Doc Brown
Collection: Japan
Image of Isabella Bird
Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.
- Isabella Bird
Collection: Japan
Image of Stanley Donwood
I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.
- Stanley Donwood
Collection: Japan
Image of Lafcadio Hearn
Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?
- Lafcadio Hearn
Collection: Japan
Image of Sadao Araki
It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.
- Sadao Araki
Collection: Japan
Image of Sadao Araki
According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.
- Sadao Araki
Collection: Japan
Image of Sadao Araki
Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.
- Sadao Araki
Collection: Japan
Image of Yasunari Kawabata
From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
- Yasunari Kawabata
Collection: Japan
Image of Sarah Wright
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18-years-old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story.
- Sarah Wright
Collection: Japan
Image of Kingoro Hashimoto
Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission.
- Kingoro Hashimoto
Collection: Japan