Those who get in the way of love’s path will be kicked by horses.~Kyoya

You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn’t determine who you are. You must...

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

I once asked an old Japanese man why Japan decided to team up with Germany during WWII, and do you know what he told me? Well, you would if you speak Japanese, which I don’t.

In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

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...

With the China market on holiday, Hong Kong is tracking trends in the Japanese market.

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.

I’m afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree...

From the girl who sat before me now…surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like...

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...

The Japanese market is struggling to stay above 17,000, and it’s still uncertain whether it can hold. An interest rate hike and a strong dollar would hurt.

Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

…O-suzu left whatever work she was doing at her sewing machine and dragged Takeo back to O-yoshi and her son.How dare you behave so selfishly! Now tell O-yoshi-san that you are sorry. Get down on...

Hong Kong is tracking trends in the Japanese market. The market has had a very good run in the first four months of this year, will the rally spill over to May and June of...

I am a lonely man,’ Sensei said. ‘And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also a melancholy man, and so I asked you why you should wish to...

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

something the Japanese side should seriously reflect on.

As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

For Sayonara, literally translated, ‘Since it must be so,’ of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the Auf Wiedershens and Au revoirs, it does not try to cheat itself by...

And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately...

Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one’s heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find...

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, ‘What is the sound of the waterfall?’ ‘Silence,’ he finally told me.

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such a waste! I thought, ‘If only she had started out with a...

Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as...

Als ich sehe, wie Harus Haar verspielt im Wind tanzt und völlig zerzaust wird, und das, obwohl das Grau da draußen doch bleischwer in der Luft lastet, erkenne ich auf einmal, wie weit, weit weg...

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I taste hatred for the first time: it is sublime, like a thirst for...

Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the...

Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

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

Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.

You know Americans…Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we’re always working on ways to become somebody else.

Welcome to thee,O sword of eternity!Through BuddhaAnd through Daruma alikeThou hast cleft thy way.

Dad says there are more than three thousand letters in the Japanese alphabet, which could pose a problem. There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, and I get into enough trouble with them...

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of ‘The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness’ in that country.

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

I could have sworn that the man’s eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving...

…and where shall we go from here? The Library is vast and infinite.