Oh I’m sure you’re right,” Auntie said. “Probably she’s just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi’s Castle?

The entire private life insurance industry in Japan, including its foreign participants, will carefully monitor this crucial process, which must also be open to input and genuine exchange.

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.

Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.

Previous research has shown that every spring there are massive dust storms in Asia that transport soil eastward to Japan and across the Pacific to the United States. Now we’ve found that sulfate and organic...

It is not, of course, only the Japanese who find flat sterile surfaces attractive and kirei. Foreign observers, too, are seduced by the crisp borders, sharp corners, neat railings, and machine-polished textures that define the...

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

It is dark and there are bad creatures in these woods.””Yes, there are…

It is very difficult to be awarded economic compensation against a Japanese company in Japan, so war victims are suing from inside China.

There are so many other fun ways to dishonor the family name that buying girls’ underwear shouldn’t be one of them.

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

A historic transition is occurring, barely noticed. Slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, religion is shriveling in America, as it has done in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and other advanced societies. Supernatural faith increasingly belongs to the Third...

Comrade Norman Bethune, a member of the Communist Party of Canada, was around fifty when he was sent by the Communist Parties of Canada and the United States to China; he made light of travelling...

Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of assets.

In any East Asian culture, you will find that women have a very tangible power within the household. This is often rejcted by non-Asian feminists who argue that it is not real power, but.. Japanese...

I think the message is not one about the United States or Japan or the Second World War, right or wrong,

If God’s love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question needs to be asked: When, after two thousand years, does God’s plan kick...

I really love traveling to Japan.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Cassiopeia? She was a queen long ago, in a different part of the world. The stories say she was very beautiful, but very proud. Too proud. She smack-talked some goddesses and got herself stuck up...

Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there’s intelligent life on other planets) or downright unreasonable (fairies exist).There’s a scale of reasonableness, if...

No foreign architect of stature, such as I. M. Pei, resides in Japan. Foreign architects come to Japan on short-term contracts, erect a skyscraper or a museum, and then leave. But subtle and sophisticated approaches...

The physical impact of taiko music, along with the sheer visual poetry of a choreographed ensemble presenting its music in perfect synchrony, is so powerful and inviting that taiko is beginning to catch on as...

I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.

Come out, Yamiko,come out…

When you’re in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who’s decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed...

I couldn’t achieve the American dream in Japan.

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the...

[And conversely, Woodrow Wilson finishes dead last.]Yes […] I think World War I was avoidable for the United States, certainly; we kind of look back on Germany as being evil (because of World War II),...

You`ll wondering why aren`t you born in Japan if you think you`re an Otaku

In Japan, they named a sake after me.

The West in the voice of her thundering cannon had said at the door of Japan, Let there be a nation—and there was a Nation. And now that it has come into existence, why do...

One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.

I’m appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan… and in the United Kingdom.

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

Insta-love isn’t something that happens in real life. Ithappens in the books I read, but not in the world I live. Though herestands this beautiful, sexy, funny, sweet and amazing guy who hasdone everything short...

As soon as we turn towards China, South Korea , Australia, Japan, this will take away part of the oil from our European colleagues.

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

I think all people want freedom, but they’ve got this idea inserted into their head about money.

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.

And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.

Mothers cry in anguishand fathers curse in anger,while others turn away in sadness,all for the children who are lost.

They needed a reason why a little kid would commit murder, someone or something to point the finger at, and I think they were relieved when they hit upon horror movies as the culprit. But...

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that’s very popular out there in Africa.

Because it takes time to persuade local communities (to accept the bases), Japan and the U.S. need to promptly map out specific measures.

Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.Memories never die, and...

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.