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.

I am just coming from my visit to Japan, where I exhorted this young nation to take its stand upon the higher ideals of humanity and never to follow the West in its acceptance of...

I had no idea it was such a big deal. We were touring in Japan beforehand and people kept telling us they were flying from Japan to be at Coachella.

has no guts,” doesn’t it?

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

As soon as we turn to China, South Korea, Australia, Japan, it will immediately take away a portion of oil from our European colleagues.

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

If you don’t have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn’t it?

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren’t enough...

Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going—people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people...

Now you can be a kikei, too.

After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born...

I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all...

A lot of people have asked about my year, so I’ve had to reflect; ‘ What really has happened here? I played real well in Japan, got my card in a limited number of starts over...

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (…) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that...

Because each nation has its own history of thieving and lies and broken faith, therefore there can only flourish international suspicion and jealousy, and international moral shame becomes anæmic to a degree of ludicrousness. The...

[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been dominated by a love of...

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

I like all Japan. I like sushi. I like Mt. Fuji.

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

It’s not easy for a young gay fabulous boy in Japan, I should know, that’s why I became a woman.” Momma Nakama

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

One warm morning in July, a ghost came to our breakfast table.

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must...