Quotes by Japanese/Japan authors (page 5)

"All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love"

"Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair"

Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman

"Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not"

Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman

"When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through"

Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman

"Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden"

Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman

"Find fault with thyself rather than with others"

Ieyasu Tokugawa, Statesman

"A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten"

Isoroku Yamamoto, Soldier

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"

Isoroku Yamamoto, Soldier

"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"

Emperor Hirohito, Royalty

"In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain"

Chiaki Kuriyama, Actress

"I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories"

Chiaki Kuriyama, Actress

"My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires"

Chiaki Kuriyama, Actress

"Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood"

Chiaki Kuriyama, Actress

"Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change"

Shusaku Endo, Author

"Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think"

Chiaki Kuriyama, Actress

"Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together"

Chiaki Kuriyama, Actress

"Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out"

Chiaki Kuriyama, Actress

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Quotes by Japanese authors