Top Japan Quotes

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

Japan Definition

(n.) Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Japan, or to the lacquered work of that country; as, Japan ware.

(v. t.) To cover with a coat of hard, brilliant varnish, in the manner of the Japanese; to lacquer.

(v. t.) To give a glossy black to, as shoes.

I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tri...

We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourse...

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's no r...

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Only the framing material, Lucas demurely, obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he's known in my crib, God.

Allowing Islamic Sharia law into the constitutions of the U.S-created Islamic (!) Republic of Afghanistan and Republic of Iraq in 2004 and 2005 was as foolhardy as it would have been to write emperor-...

Finally, let's talk about those Kit Kat bars. There is no flavor that can be embodied in Kit Kat form and sold in Japanese stores. Green tea. Black tea. Miso. Cherry blossom. Soy sauce. Toasted soybea...

What comes from the heart will go to the heart

Dairy Chiko, in the basement of Nakano Broadway, is a surrealist ice cream shop known for octuple-decker soft-serve cones. You can also order a smaller cone with less than one billion calories, but th...

Thingschanging, failing apart, fading, another year, a few moremoves, a hard person who doesn't give a fuck, a boredom somonumental it humbles, arrangements so fleeting made bypeople you don't even kn...

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During the hours spent in front of a pachinko machine, there is an almost total lac...

I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people.

New York Times military analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote, shortly after the war:The enemy, in a military sense, was in a hopeless strategic position by the time the Potsdam demand for unconditional surren...

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

[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...

Das Fegen der Wandelgänge ist eine lästige Angelegenheit an diesem Nachmittag: Kaum sind die Blätter und Piniennadeln zusammengekehrt, bläst der Wind den Haufen davon. Wolken ziehen über dem Kahlen Gi...

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.