Japanese Quotes

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. Harry Seidler
War Great Technology Architecture World Made Strides Earthquake Characteristics Only Allowing Advanced Advanced Technology Tall Buildings Traditional Were Modern After Japanese Infusing Expressing Resistant World War World War II
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. Haruki Murakami
Teacher Father Else Something Something Else Read Because Just Wanted Literature Japanese Much
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside. Haruki Murakami
Time Will Living Think Society Would Some About Write Outside Since Come Like Am America Often Whether While Japanese Asked Next Novel Set
When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese. Haruki Murakami
Great Emotions Thought Feeling Teenager Would Would-Be Able More Only Directly Could Write Had Wrote How Than Japanese Much English Express Novels
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. Haruki Murakami
Style Own Way My Own Models Literature Japanese Created
I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front. Henry L. Stimson
Out See How Front Hold Against Japanese United
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. Herb Alpert
Seem Audience Japanese Loyal
It's a tough line, Japanese and western games. We wanted to blur that line. Hideaki Itsuno
Tough Line Western Wanted Blur Japanese Games
The Japanese government has accepted the notion that Japan is the loser, and it appears to be going to accept unconditional surrender. Such a position frustrates the officers and soldiers of the imperial armed forces. Hideki Tojo
Government Surrender Soldiers Imperial Unconditional Armed Armed Forces Forces Accept Accepted Loser Officers Going Frustrate Japan Japanese Notion Appears Position
When I was a child, there really weren't very many video games, but I do have memories of 'Pong.' Maybe it was 'Pong.' It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn't the real 'Pong.' It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to 'Pong.' Hideo Kojima
Video Games Home Game Memories System Similar Sort Real Were Very Child Maybe Just Japan Japanese Video Really Games Many
Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.' Hideo Kojima
Service Me You Say Degrees Give Give Me Direction Given Arena Throwing Thrown Head Instead Like Supposed Instruction Hints Am Provide Very Any Just Being Which Little Japanese They Say Players
One of my favourite Japanese cartoons is 'Yasuragi no Yakata,' written by the famous Fujiko Fujio. Hidetaka Miyazaki
Favourite Cartoons Written Famous Japanese
I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe. Hidetoshi Nakata
First More Than Interested Japanese Notice Europe Teams Now Players
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races. Hirohito
People Superior Depend Other Divine Myths Mere Emperor Conception False Legends Japanese Japanese People Races
As the Japanese family gets more and more atomized, grandparents don't live with the nuclear family, so parents of children can't consult with their own parents about how to raise their children and rely on that to help raise them. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Family Parents Own Live About More More And More Rely Consult How Gets Children Japanese Them Grandparents Help Nuclear Raise
It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such European values. Hirokazu Kore-eda
People Values Films State Righteous Criticise Make Accept Subsidies Want Japanese Japanese People European Receive
I am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Happy Borders Cross Am Very Japanese Film
The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Food Religion You Spirituality Shoes Say Kind Table Eat Like Am Thanking Cap Japanese Specific Apple Receiving
Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Generation People Intimacy My Generation Feel Dead Least Up Japanese
I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Think Would Morals Dead Around Built Lot Japanese Us
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future. Howard Baker
Hope Future Government Great Justice Be Happy Happy People Progress Will Become Believe Think Case Content Issue Japan Japanese
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony. Howard Stringer
Press Frankly Has-Been Running Idea Sony Generous How Surprised Been Foreigner Japanese
Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart. Hugh Grant
Heart Women Made Girl Films Else Hundreds Definitely No-One Since Always Been Did Getting Loved Place Japanese Special Even Special Place Letter Ever
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. Iain Banks
Future You Looking Think Back Runner Blade Blade Runner More Look American Stopped Japanese Started
Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns. Ian Watson
Future Science Late Futures Seemed Like Science Fiction Traditional Cultural Fiction Patterns Japanese Tokyo Here Presents
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions. Ichiro Suzuki
Character Emotions Strong Feelings Own Tendency Suppress Japanese
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