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I think that as a Chinese person, nobody will forget that in China's history, there was a war against the Japanese.
Jiang Wen
War
History
Will
Think
Nobody
Person
Forget
China
Against
Chinese
Japanese
I worked at a vintage guitar store, and the owner had ties with a lot of Japanese manufacturers and U.S. manufacturers that were beginning to pop up. So I was ordering parts and screwing them together and contacting local luthiers to finish and do frets and things, and I had put together two guitars, a red one and a black one.
Joe Satriani
Together
Guitar
Black
Beginning
Local
Guitars
Finish
Had
Put
Red
Ties
Parts
Were
Fret
Lot
Up
Owner
Store
Ordering
Screwing
Japanese
Them
Worked
Pop
Manufacturers
Vintage
Things
Two
I love to learn, and I started doing a lot of studying of Spanish-style music and really started getting into it and how it is just a completely different form of guitar playing. It is just like if you started speaking in a different language like Japanese or something. It is something that you have to study and work at a lot.
John 5
Work
Love
Music
You
Guitar
Language
Guitar Playing
Something
Study
Studying
Like
Learn
How
Doing
Lot
Getting
Just
Different
Form
Japanese
Different Language
Really
Speaking
Started
Playing
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.
John Badham
Would
About
Excited
Real
Germans
Get
Japanese
Things
Technological
Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.
John Foster
Good
Communicate
Crew
Had
Since
Most
Very
Japanese
Interpreter
There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.
John Foster
Myself
You
People
Speak
Independent
Independent Film
Financing
About
Direct
Directors
Fact
Combine
Doing
Were
Curious
Trying
American
Japanese
Much
Many
Film
Here
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.
John Henrik Clarke
Long
Action
Films
Scandinavian
Silences
Some
Taking
Knows
Audience
Hears
Place
Japanese
If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.
John Lasseter
Character
You
Writing
Walk
Seen
Big
Building
Everyone
Would
Spirited
Main
Main Character
Know
Look
Audiences
Up
Very
Flag
Sensibility
Japan
Japanese
Away
Set
I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people.
John Roos
People
Underestimate
Powers
Japanese
Japanese People
Competitive
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
John Roos
You
Experience
People
Opportunity
Kids
About
Take
Talk
Offer
Being
Japanese
Them
Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.
John Roos
Our
About
Knew
California
Obviously
Up
Japanese
Deep
Connections
Growing
Growing Up
As an American, you appreciate the importance of our security alliance, the importance of the economic ties between our two countries, and while I knew of the two bonds between our two people, until I came here, I didn't really appreciate how deep the people-to-people connections are between the American people and the Japanese people.
John Roos
You
People
Our
Security
Economic
Alliance
Knew
Between
Countries
Importance
Until
Ties
How
Came
American
While
Japanese
Japanese People
American People
Really
Deep
Connections
Here
Two
Bonds
Two People
Appreciate
I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.
Jonathan Anderson
Respect
Consistency
Think
Because
Huge
Huge Amount
Craft
Japanese
Amount
Designers
In the late '90s, we kind of took a sabbatical, and I got an invitation to play with a Japanese band and formed a supergroup called NiNa. It was Yuki from Judy and Mary and Masahide Sakuma from The Plastics, a Japanese equivalent of the B-52s. It went to No. 1 in Japan.
Kate Pierson
Band
Late
Nina
Took
Kind
Sabbatical
Mary
Invitation
Got
Equivalent
Judy
Formed
Japan
Japanese
Play
In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.
Kathryn Lasky
God
Family
Wealth
Considered
All-Powerful
Direct
More
Terms
Prisoners
Tradition
Were
Than
Often
Literally
Regarded
Japanese
Unimaginable
Descendants
Royal
Royal Family
To have a Japanese wrestler standing as the face of professional wrestling, there's only one person for that spot, and it's me.
Kazuchika Okada
Me
Face
Wrestler
Only
Wrestling
Spot
Person
Japanese
Standing
Professional
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Future
Me
Speak
Own
Think
Changing
Would
Also
Well
Make
Felt
Still
Were
Passport
Very
Literary
Regarded
Japan
Japanese
Regulations
Awards
Eligible
Britain
British
I also have some Chinese weapons, but I like the Japanese sword the best.
Kelly Hu
Best
Weapons
Some
Like
Also
Chinese
Japanese
Sword
The Japanese really like things very well planned out. I enjoy things as they come by.
Ken Hakuta
Enjoy
Out
Come
Like
Well
Very
Japanese
Really
Planned
Things
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
Learning Japanese was certainly a task, but my passion for the culture, as well as my will to communicate with fans and friends, always encouraged me to continue.
Kenny Omega
Me
Learning
Culture
Communicate
Passion
Fans
Will
Well
Always
Continue
Encouraged
Friends
Task
Japanese
Certainly
If you're holding a championship that means something in the landscape of Japanese wrestling, you're guaranteed to get a huge feature in almost every magazine - you might even be guaranteed a front page. That's big.
Kenny Omega
You
Big
Holding
Every
Magazine
Something
Wrestling
Feature
Almost
Huge
Get
Front
Front Page
Japanese
Might
Landscape
Means
Page
Even
Championship
Guaranteed
The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
Lady Gaga
Life
Reality
Something
Day-To-Day
Commercialism
Japanese
Fantasy
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
Lafcadio Hearn
Latter
Gut
General
Only
Poetry
Students
Part
True
Idea
Between
Longer
Perhaps
Cultivate
Western
Short
Difference
Former
Forms
Japanese
Among
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