Every once in a while she’ll get worked up and cry like that. But that’s ok. She’s letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. Then your feelings build...

Oh, she’s still here;she’s just not as pretty… anymore.

Within two or three years of World War II’s end, starvation had been basically eliminated in Japan, and yet the Japanese had continued slaving away as if their lives depend on it. Why? To create...

Commodity-related funds remain in demand because the fundamentals remain the same — we have strong economic growth in Japan, the United States and China that is going to drive up demand, while spare refining capacity...

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

Even if there are no new Mighty Atom manga or films created, the Mighty Atom character has become a permanent fixture of both Japanese and global pop culture.

We are back out in Japan touring in November so providing everything is going well, we want to come back here.

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as...

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...