Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shusaku Endo

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

Shintaro Ishihara

Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.

Shinzo Abe

We aim to achieve general progress in relations between North Korea and Japan.

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

The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.

Shinzo Abe

I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

Shinzo Abe

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan,

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.

Leslie Caron

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

Utada Hikaru

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

Utada Hikaru

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

Utada Hikaru

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

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

There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I'm very impressed that there are so many fans - not just in Japan, but here in America - that are fond of the work that I've done. I'm actually kind of embarrassed by it all.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

Shigeru Miyamoto

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.

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, 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.

Tony Abbott

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

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.

Tadashi Yanai

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

Tadanobu Asano

I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.

Tadao Ando

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

Steve Goodman

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

Sydney Pollack

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

Kenzaburo Oe

From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.

Kenzaburo Oe

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

Lenny Bruce

I wanted out of the navy so bad in '45, I faked homo to get a discharge. It didn't matter that the Germans surrendered, I knew we were heading to Japan and I was done with that scene.

Junichiro Koizumi

The result was more than I expected, ... The Japanese people said they wanted to keep reform, not stop reform. That was the voice of the people.

As the judicial procedure has started in Chile, Japan would like to observe that appropriate procedures are taken.

We think long-term the Japanese market is going to be just fine.