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The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.
Pat Morita
Rarity
Only
Idea
Comedian
Non-Existent
Japanese
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux
Good
Rudeness
Made
Manners
Good Manners
Indistinguishable
Japanese
Them
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
Paul Watson
Language
Economics
Only
Industry
Understands
Whaling
Japanese
Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed.
Paul Watson
Care
Complain
Brought
About
Something
Park
Could
Audience
How
Issue
Dolphin
South
South Park
Very
Whale
Being
Japanese
Really
Less
Large
Large Audience
Hardly
Slaughter
Portrayed
Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.
Paul Watson
Government
Me
Trust
Hates
More
Than
Canada
Canadian
Japanese
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.
Paul Watson
Society
Approach
District
Temporary
Court
Within
Yards
Shepherd
Whaling
December
Ordered
Japanese
Sea
Granted
Injunction
Conservation
Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
Paul Watson
Vote
Tough
Party
Back
Way
Promised
Thousands
Had
Because
October
Labor
Australians
Get
Whaling
Urged
Japanese
Illegal
Peter
Why
Kevin
The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to.
Peter Berg
Today
You
Long
Big
Saw
Guns
About
Feet
Missouri
WWII
Were
Huge
Current
Which
Japanese
Used
Fun
Navy
Last
Japanese children have infinitely more developed bodies than those in the West. From the age of two, a child learns to sit in a perfectly balanced manner; between two and three, the child begins to bow regularly, which is a wonderful exercise for the body.
Peter Brook
Age
Wonderful
Three
Sit
Those
More
Developed
Perfectly
Between
Bow
Balanced
Exercise
Learns
West
Than
Begins
Child
Infinitely
Children
Which
Japanese
Manner
Bodies
Body
Regularly
Two
The ward designs were co-created by myself and Lauren K. Cannon. She read how they were described in 'The Warded Man,' and we had long discussions about what sources to draw from for the symbols, drawing inspiration from Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Sanskrit.
Peter V. Brett
Myself
Man
Long
Draw
Drawing
Arabic
Lauren
About
Inspiration
Had
She
Read
How
Were
Sources
Discussions
Cannon
Ward
Chinese
Japanese
Designs
Symbols
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Phil Donahue
War
World
Remember
About
Could
Never
Put
Bewildered
Understand
How
Fence
Behind
Being
Japanese
World War
World War II
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
Philip Warren Anderson
Art
Game
Culture
Architecture
Admiration
Learned
Still
Go
Existence
Which
Japanese
Japanese Culture
Acquired
Play
I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.
Pierre Dukan
Love
Food
Wife
Three
Out
Eat
Week
Thai
Times
Japanese
Seafood
Two
The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.
Randy Neugebauer
Good
News
Good News
Long
Back
Market
Our
Way
Brought
Weekend
Taken
Steps
Make
Industry
Cattle
Beef
Friends
American
Japan
Japanese
Last
Needed
Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Communicate
Speak
Employees
Increasingly
Corporate
Unlike
Able
Executives
Coming
Expect
Predecessors
Japan
Japanese
English
Who
Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans.
Richard Cohen
War
People
World
Fear
Country
Our
Extreme
Intolerance
Some
Only
Particular
Periodic
Were
Foreigners
Italians
Germans
Camps
Refugees
Placed
Japanese
Episodes
Descent
Internment
World War
World War II
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
Richard Flanagan
Great
Poet
Books
Written
Road
Most
Narrow
North
Famous
Literature
Japanese
Deep
We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.
Rinko Kikuchi
Love
Emotions
To Be Honest
Our
Out
Put
Japan
Japanese
Honest
As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.
Robert Fortune
Better
Rest
Before
Pay
Visit
Pretty
Both
Open
Had
Observed
Fail
Along
Houses
Parts
Passed
Than
Did
Shops
Behind
Wherever
Little
Japanese
Lower
Gardens
Streets
It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.
Robert Jenkins
Government
Me
Try
Trouble
Out
Get
Whatsoever
Done
Intention
Japanese
Really
Appreciate
We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
Robert McNamara
Death
You
Women
Win
Thought
Men
Lose
Lost
Side
Recognized
Would
Would-Be
Immoral
Civilians
Had
He
Makes
Doing
His
Women And Children
Children
Burned
Japanese
Tokyo
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
Robert Morgan
Mathematics
Translation
Background
Poetry
Through
Also
Sciences
Came
Very
Did
Literary
Interest
Chinese
Japanese
I'm always going on about how I could just eat Japanese food and nothing else until the day I die.
Robert Sheehan
Food
Day
Nothing
Else
Eat
About
Could
Until
Always
How
Die
Going
Just
Japanese
At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.
Robyn Davidson
Age
Culture
Language
Gave
Alice
Study
Town
Springs
Up
Moved
Japanese
University
Japan is the only country I have visited that I want to go to again. I just feel the Japanese have such good taste and dedication to craftsmanship in everything they do. They also merge the traditional and modern aspects of their culture so well.
Ronny Chieng
Good
Culture
Good Taste
Country
Dedication
Everything
Visited
Only
Only Country
Merge
Feel
Also
Well
Go
Traditional
Taste
Modern
Craftsmanship
Just
Want
Again
Japan
Japanese
Aspects
I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.'
Ruth Asawa
Myself
Citizen
Universe
Longer
Identify
American
Japanese
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