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There is nothing I will miss about Japanese baseball. Off the field, I will miss my dog.
Ichiro Suzuki
Dog
Will
Field
Nothing
About
Miss
Off
Japanese
Baseball
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
Ingrid Newkirk
Family
Animal
Cats
Other
Rightly
Members
Like
Most
Dogs
American
Family Members
Japanese
View
Companions
I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.
Isabella Bird
Living
Saw
Unaffected
Contact
Mode
Regions
Japanese
European
Lived
Among
If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.
Isabella Bird
Bitterness
Tea
Sugar
Unwholesome
Japanese
Used
Coarse
Stands
Milk
The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six parts and are so highly elaborate that the scribes who indite them are almost looked upon as litterateurs.
Isabella Bird
Writing
Consist
Rigid
Must
Almost
Highly
Like
Most
Looked
Parts
Six
Elaborate
Forms
Japanese
Them
Etiquette
Who
Letter
Letters
Set
I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.
Isla Fisher
Love
Good
Food
Amazing
Nice
Restaurants
Eat
London
Pretty
He
Gordon
Japanese
Good Food
In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.
Issey Miyake
Fashion
Creativity
Wake Up
Value
Type
Bit
Brought
Something
New
Effect
Wake
Up
Shock
Eighties
Japanese
Europe
Helped
Europeans
Designers
I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.
Issey Miyake
Fashion
Me
Job
Thought
Clothes
Society
Never
Because
Japanese
European
Thing
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
J. G. Ballard
Morning
Invaded
Seized
Shanghai
After
China
Japanese
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
Creative
Gardening
Culture
Painting
Flower
Drama
Anarchy
Overall
Most
Periods
Greatest
Arrangement
Culmination
Arts
Japanese
Japanese Culture
Skill
Landscape
Appeared
There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
J. Maarten Troost
World
Young
Luck
Student
Student Loans
Major
Around
Debilitating
Germans
Unencumbered
American
Arts
Theater
Chinese
Japanese
Reason
Even
Loans
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
J. Paul Getty
Nature
People
Immensely
Industrious
Politeness
Impressed
Japan
Japanese
Japanese People
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
Jack Adams
Training
Out
Spies
Had
Been
Japanese
Basic
Watch
Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
Jack Adams
Group
Air
Carrier
Launch
Reported
Did
Japanese
Lexington
We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
Jack Adams
Other
Later
Out
Directions
Forces
Passed
Opposite
Were
Began
Very
Close
Which
Moving
Japanese
Miles
Radio
Each
Found
Two
Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ordered and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. Congress was informed about what was happening and raised no objection. The public knew, too.
Jacob Weisberg
Congress
Too
Secret
Unlike
Objection
About
Knew
Policy
Cheney
Up
America
Just
Ordered
Happening
Informed
Public
Japanese
Served
Internment
Raised
That's one of the things my family miss most when I'm travelling - my Sunday roasts and my Japanese meals.
Jade Jagger
Family
Sunday
One Of The Things
Miss
Most
Meals
Japanese
Travelling
Things
I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.
James Blake
Think
London
More
Attentive
Audience
Audiences
Than
Japanese
Much
One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.
Jane Birkin
You
Happy
Yourself
Old
Thanks
Satisfied
Enjoy
Think
One Of The Things
Admit
Never
Days
Discovered
Oh
Being
Curse
Old Days
Being Happy
Japanese
Should
Used
Things
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
Jane Seymour
War
World
Mother
Three
Years
Camp
Holland
Japanese
Lived
World War
World War II
I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.
Janis Ian
Lost
Enough
Properly
Having
Over
Know
Audience
Years
Lot
Friends
Get
Greet
Just
Being
Japanese
Being There
So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.
Jay Inslee
Problem
Progress
Result
Losing
Jobs
Rapidly
Vehicles
Global
Global Warming
Foreign
Still
Foreign Oil
Very
Dependent
Oil
Japanese
Fuel-Efficient
Warming
Shortsighted
Now
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.
Jay Inslee
Family
Technology
World
Lost
Energy
Action
Danish
Jobs
Rather
Clean
Clean Energy
Lead
Takes
Since
New
Wage
Tap
Germans
Than
American
Order
Energy Bill
Japanese
Ingenuity
Bill
Manufacturing
Manufacturing Jobs
Bold
Millions
Playing
Need
When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
First
Young
Those
About
Guy
Crush
Over
Days
Fell
Learned
Because
Were
Years
Lot
Jack
Subsequent
Behind
Young Guy
Japan
Japanese
Sent
Gonna
Us
Reason
Companies
Why
Started
It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It's classic. Every time I've tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like a Japanese animated cartoon character.
Jennifer Aniston
Time
Character
Crazy
You
Every
Every Time
Tried
Easy
Cartoon
Cartoon Character
Wear
Able
Classic
About
Something
Having
Animated
Feel
Like
Comfortable
Being
Japanese
Bold
So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.
Jennifer Lee
Else
Invented
More
Consumed
Ultimately
Than
American
Anything
Anything Else
Chinese
Japanese
Fortune
Cookies
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