Quotes by Japanese/Japan authors (page 8)

"Do nothing which is of no use"

"Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best"

Takeru Kobayashi, Celebrity

"The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent"

Pat Morita, Actor

"I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed"

Pat Morita, Actor

"Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"The world is its own magic"

Shunryu Suzuki, Leader

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few"

Shunryu Suzuki, Leader

"The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well"

Junichiro Koizumi, Statesman

"The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment"

Dogen, Leader

"Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things"

Dogen, Leader

"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain"

Mako, Actor

"The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Any idealism is a proper subject for art"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it"

Dogen, Leader

"The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey"

Kenji Miyazawa, Poet

"A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's"

Stan Sakai, Cartoonist

"Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system"

Shigeru Miyamoto, Designer

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