Famous Quotes & Sayings

The drop-off in Treasuries can't be ignored. That is contributing to weaker sentiment in Japanese bonds.

John Bruton

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

John Boorman

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

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.

William Adams

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

Robert C. Solomon

Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

Sasha Cohen

I had whale tartare when I was in Japan, but I probably wouldn't have it again.

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.

Vladimir Putin

I would like to inform you with great satisfaction of a new step forward on establishing partnership between Russia and Japan

Wladimir Klitschko

Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation everywhere. Water quality is affected. We all eat the same fish. We use products from all over the world - if something is contaminated, it will cause harm.

Zhang Ziyi

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

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!

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.

Randall Munroe

Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

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.

Sam Abell

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Sadako Ogata

Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.

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.

Vinton Cerf

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

Ronald Reagan

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan.