344 Japanese Quotes for You to Enjoy

The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. Homaro Cantu

Life Beautiful Culture Country Beauty Tree Back Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Significance Almost Reminder Also Cherry Cherry Blossom Years Tragically Blossom Goes Short Represents Japanese Japanese Culture Fragility

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science. Sam Harris

You Science Political National Thinking Way Circumstance About Boundaries Most Cultural Versus Canadian American Durable Human Transcends Japanese

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. Noam Chomsky

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We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect. George Takei

Government Our States Citizens Both Term Were Camp Camps American American Citizens American Government Japanese United United States Internment Here Incorrect

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice. Guy Fieri

Raw Does Fish Sushi Mean Japanese Rice Means Seasoned

I loved Japanese culture before even realizing it was, in fact, Japanese culture. The cartoons and anime I was watching as a child, my favorite video games, and even in pro wrestling - my favorite wrestlers and matches originated in Japan. Kenny Omega

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Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. Shinzo Abe

Beautiful Hope Future People Matter Trouble Young Promise Finding Threat Slump Having Economic Protect Territory Young People Japan Japanese Japanese People Land Sea Seas Lives

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. Tadao Ando

Man Experience Architecture Building Architectural Through Since Come Concepts Although Am Materials Been Methods Western Japanese Based Actual Designs

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.' Takashi Murakami

Art People Will Pretentious Hierarchy Rigid High High Art Fact Blended Accept Surprised Western Commerce In Fact Japanese Japanese People

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles. Ted Allen

Love Cooking Mediterranean Everything Noodles Lots Japanese Asian Cook

Obviously, I love Japanese food. My favorite TV show of all time, without exception, is 'Iron Chef.' Not the stupid American version; 'Iron Chef' Japanese; the real one, the one that was on in Japan... my DVR for years was set to record almost every single 'Iron Chef' episode. Tucker Max

Love Time Food Stupid Single Every Favorite TV TV Show Record All-Time Exception Almost Obviously Chef Without Real Years Version Iron American Japan Japanese Episode Show Set

Natto, Japanese ferment bean paste, will never cross my lips again. Spam Musubi, on the other hand, is something I love. I used to have a roommate of Vietnamese descent, and he would eat it all the time. It looked gross, but I finally had it - wrapped in seaweed and rice - it was terrific. Adam Richman

Love Time Will Other Finally Would Wrapped Eat Cross Something Bean Never Had He Looked Terrific Ferment Hand Paste Lips Again Spam Japanese Rice Vietnamese Used Gross Descent Seaweed

Growing up, I didn't know about the Japanese internment camps until I saw a movie of the week as an adult. I remember going, 'How come that wasn't covered in history class?' Moving to California, you run into people whose grandparents lost everything and their businesses and were put in these internment camps. Adina Porter

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It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience. Alain Ducasse

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One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.' Alan King

Life Dinner One Thing Restaurant Never Said Japanese Whole Thing

When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears. Alexandra Bracken

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Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers. Andrea Hirata

Philippines Writers Global Terms Behind Japanese Far Exposure Compared

I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah. Ann Nocenti

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I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies. Ann Nocenti

Lover Weaponry Martial Martial Arts Huge Arts Movies Japanese

There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages. Ann Nocenti

It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They're fat books; it's a whole different kind of comic that's very close to their films. So I'm drawing from that history and bringing it here - bringing it to Katana. Ann Nocenti

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