Quotes by japanese authors

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people. Kazuo Ishiguro
News People World Nice Our Benevolent Tell Kind Bad About Bad News Bubble Like Always Children Censor Them Full Nice People Keep
I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that. Ken Watanabe
Life Home Big Week Days Normal Normal Life Very Big Star Japan Cook Star Actor Four
About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are. Ken Watanabe
Me Business Comedy Half Related Way Mad Characters One-Dimensional Some About No Point Feature Point Absurd Stereotype Particularly Identify Role Getting Just Scripts Japanese Sent Businessmen Things
I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it. Ken Watanabe
Myself Happy Sex Stronger Sense Elsewhere Guess Sex Symbol Case Charm Seems No Sense Emphasis Come Sort Hear Male Version Mature Different Little Japan Japanese Might Meaning Meaning Of Then Grownup Symbol
Musicals are written in English, and then we import them to Japan. When we translate them into Japanese, the sounds of the language are completely different. The Japanese language is not the best for singing, in terms of sound. Ken Watanabe
Best Language Singing Musicals Written Import Terms Sound Sounds Different Japan Japanese Them Translate Then English
In 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' there were times when I told Eastwood, 'This is just not believable.' Ken Watanabe
Eastwood Were Times Just Believable Letters
I try to differentiate between what I need and don't need. I talk to my wife and children before buying things. Ken Watanabe
Try Wife Before Between Talk Children Differentiate Things Buying Need
My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality. Ken Watanabe
Me Country Background Remain Identity Foreign Still Foreign Country Go Nationality Kept
The characters I play are tough, but I love laughing and humor. Ken Watanabe
Love Humor Tough Characters Laughing Play
This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams. Kenichi Fukui
Simple Distinct Drawing Visualization Able More Simple Idea Through Shape Idea Reacting Make Reactions Chemical Chemical Reactions Diagram Geometrical Provide Role Frontier Information Molecules Served
But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects. Kenichi Fukui
Work Nature Better Chemistry Related More Main Concern Reactions Chemical Chemical Reactions Subjects Than Which Theory English Roughly Publications
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind. Kenichi Fukui
Wisdom Future Survival Depend Believe Lasting Earth Particular Scientific May Mankind Younger Working Inheritance Researchers Disposal Whom Preservation
This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed. Kenichi Fukui
Success Group Range Compound More More And More Reactions Chemical Were Led Discussed Theoretical Theory Extending Widely
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. Kenzaburo Oe
Country Hundred Split Observation Between Since Opening Poles Opposite Years Ambiguity After Japan Twenty Present-Day Two
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors. Kenzaburo Oe
Reading Sense Sleeping Trees Security Find Able Could Never Indoors Felt Huckleberry Huckleberry Finn Forest Mountain Going Which Justify Act Among Night
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. Kenzaburo Oe
Country Invader Drove Ambiguous Japan Asia Orientation Position
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. Kenzaburo Oe
History People Innocent Past Own Living Other State Moral Paradoxically Invading Had Props Countries Were Been Past History Stained Japan Asian Asian Countries
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large. Kenzaburo Oe
World Wish Those Vast Writers Consumer Mere Am Cultures Reflections Literature Which Themselves Create Tokyo Who Large Works Serious Novels
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. Kenzaburo Oe
Mine Survived Representing Form Novel Sufferings
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. Kenzaburo Oe
War Constitution World Imperative Categorical New End Forever Article After Central Declare Us Second World War Second World War
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Kenzo Tange
Heart Architecture Human Heart Must Something Powerful Human Means Appeals Symbolism Need
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. Kenzo Tange
Nature Long Design Arbitrary Purely Expected Cannot Designs Last
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. Kenzo Tange
Great Architecture Society Considerations Cities Importance Informational Technological
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. Koichi Tanaka
Work Failure Engineer Results Development Performed Most
My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. Koichi Tanaka
Age Natural Mother Giving Birth Month Born Advanced Due Died After Apparently
My grandmother valued even the smallest of things. Koichi Tanaka
Valued Smallest Grandmother Even Things
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