I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever’s sharp.
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That’s the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
Growing up, I didn’t know about the Japanese internment camps until I saw a movie of the week as an adult. I remember going, ‘How come that wasn’t covered in history class?’ Moving to California, you run into people whose grandparents lost everything and their businesses and were put in these internment camps.
I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it’s where many, many Japanese lived.
My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize.
My CIA godfather told me he’d never heard any American speak Japanese so well.
The removal of people of Japanese descent from their homes and their incarceration in camps were executed with the same sort of political calculus of fear and bigotry that Mr. Trump is using to redefine American immigration policy.
I’ve loved Japanese culture for a long, long time, from doing martial arts, to the block prints, to the music. It’s a country that I love, and a culture that I love.
The way I see it is that all the ol’ guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn’t be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn’t be Chinese or Japanese.
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.
I don’t really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like. I just feel like me.
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.
History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
I’m a first-generation Japanese immigrant.
As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.
That’s a very Japanese idea – that children are an extension of their parents. And that when you’re reborn, your new form reflects the sins of your previous life – you can’t escape.
In high school, I actually thought I was going to have to learn Japanese to work in technology. My big feeling was I just missed it, I missed the whole thing. It had happened in the ’80s, and I got here too late. But then, I’m maybe the most optimistic person I know. I mean, I’m incredibly optimistic.
It wasn’t really my intention to make movies quickly – it’s more to do with the reality of the Japanese film industry. That’s been the only way for me to change my situation; to prove how little time you need to make a good film.
Tokyo & Kyoto are two of my favorites. I like how Japanese cities live in harmony with their natural surroundings, with gardens and forests mixed into urban areas. The public transit is also fantastic and there are cat cafes everywhere.
What I like about Japanese venues is that the front barrier is right up against the stage, so when you’re bending over, they’re right there in front of you. In some European festivals, they’re so paranoid, you need a taxi to go and touch the crowd!
I worked for a Japanese company called K1 for a while.
Walk into any Japanese fish market, and you’ll see neat rows of sea urchin roe sold in little wooden trays.
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.
England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.
I very much like the Japanese version of pro wrestling, probably the most.
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.
I remember my sisters, they loved a movie called ‘The Naked Island.’ And the flute was actually playing the main theme. A Japanese movie. A beautiful movie from 1961. I remember hearing this music with a flute many, many times a day at home.
It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.
By the ’50s and ’60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.
Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They’ve perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It’s just mind-blowing.
When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
I’m afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
I hate the marketing side of business where, ‘Oh let’s do a shoe for this clientele or for the Chinese or for the Japanese.’ We’re doing the same products for everyone.
I feel like I have great support here. Many Japanese comes. Fans are very loud. Helps me. So, yeah, I always enjoy playing New York.
Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
I believe that a lot of what we put in our bodies really can harm us. It’s been proven that people who eat Mediterranean and Japanese diets live for a very long time.
‘Toonami’ was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.
I’ve been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
If you’re afraid and don’t let yourself get to empty, you’ll never build your conditioning. I learned that from my Japanese trainer, Tokyo Joe, a long time ago.
I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn’t really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
The Japanese really like things very well planned out. I enjoy things as they come by.
When it comes to influences, we are influenced not just by Japanese and overseas metal acts, but J-pop acts too. One Japanese rock band we’re particularly fond of is Seikima-II. We were attracted by their brand of devil imagery and of course, their high-quality musicianship.
A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China’s international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese – Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese – American relations.
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.
I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.
I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.
One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don’t know the Japanese words, they still sing along.
I always have dashi in my refrigerator – it’s the almighty Japanese ingredient.
Another dynamic of this last year was our increased penetration into the Japanese market.
I designed a sports car, the Cizeta-Moroder, with Marcello Gandini from Lamborghini; he did the Countach, of course. The Cizeta cost $600,000, but we could bargain – if a Japanese businessman says he wants it for three, fine.
I think I became an entrepreneur because I have my way of doing business… to do that, you have to have your own company. But if you have your own company, you’re an outsider in the Japanese business world. It’s difficult. But that’s life.
The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.
I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
I am very happy to help share the great treasure trove of Japanese content with the western world.
The creation of a digital agency is a reform that will lead to a major transformation of the Japanese economy and society.
In ‘Sisters of War,’ I got to do one of my own stunts. Running out of the building because the Japanese were firing, with all these little spark plugs are going off, looking like explosions and bullets flying down. That was really fun.
