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Japanese of my generation try to get through life without stepping on anyone's toes; in some ways that's unnatural and stressful. The yakuza are different: They live short lives but live and die on their own terms - it's exciting to portray that.
Takashi Miike / Filmmaker
My Generation
Stressful
Toes
Unnatural
Japanese
Portray
Stepping
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
Tao Okamoto / Model
Available
Chosen
Nationality
Batman
Hannibal
Japanese
Previous
Wolverine
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The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it.
Vivienne Westwood / Fashion Designer
Believe
Complicated
Mesmerizing
Night
Thinking
Life Best Experience
Japanese
Primordial
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Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.
Eisaku Sato / Former Prime Minister Of Japan
War
Disputes
First Time
International
Involved
Modern Warfare
People
Soil
Variety
Warfare
World
World War Ii
War Time History
Experienced
Horrors
Japanese
Japanese People
Subsequently
World War
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When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
Masaharu Morimoto / Chef
Dream
Baseball
Baseball Player
Chef
Hiroshima
Hometown
Sushi
Team
Franchise
Japanese
Restaurant
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
Naomi Klein / Author
Camps
Christian
Damn
Internment
Soil
White
Sure
After
American
Pretty
Around
Attack
Attacks
Field
Harbor
Japanese
Jailed
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
Ad Reinhardt / Artist
Art
Art History
Chinese
Class
Department
Indian
Painting
Classes
Facilities
Japanese
Partly
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Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family when the country was still a monarchy and lived through various civil wars, revolutions, the Japanese invasion, and the establishment of the Republic.
Wong Kar-Wai / Filmmaker
Establishment
Extraordinary
Invasion
Monarchy
Republic
Revolutions
Civil
Civil Wars
Wars
Japanese
Ip
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I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah.
Ann Nocenti /
Spaghetti
Directions
Japanese
Influences
Sam
Westerns
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'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.
Steven Blum / Voice Actor
Animation
Debt
Delivering
Gratitude
Immense
Massive
Vehicle
Tremendous
Experienced
Japanese
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I'm constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy's camp. For example in WWII, we know the Nazis and the Japanese were wrong. But I sympathize with the individual story of a soldier who was drafted into that.
Chloe Zhao /
Enemy
Soldier
Wwii
Camp
Drafted
For Example
Japanese
Right Side
Sympathize
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Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the same things. But dashi is worth preparing and using the way the Japanese do: for poaching fish, as a soup base, and in simmered dishes.
Nobu Matsuhisa / Chef
Cooks
Dishes
Preparing
Remains
Soup
Unfamiliar
Base
Fish
Cube
Japanese
Same Things
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If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.
Leonard Lauder / Businessman
Accusation
Accusing
Compliment
Tomorrow
Beat
Concept
Japanese
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There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.
Martha Smith / Actress
Groups
Letters
Nuclear
Pacific
People
Wife
Different Types
Student
Fishermen
Japanese
Protests
Surprisingly
Types
Wives
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It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They're fat books; it's a whole different kind of comic that's very close to their films. So I'm drawing from that history and bringing it here - bringing it to Katana.
Ann Nocenti /
Comic
Drawing
Pages
History Always Me
Fat
Amazes
Bringing
Close
Different Kind
Japanese
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One evening, Mike Myers and Steven Spielberg were discussing 'Goldmember,' and I just happened to joke, 'If you need a Japanese character, let me know!' The next day, they called me for audition! I find it's always helpful to maintain a sense of humour.
Nobu Matsuhisa / Chef
Discussing
Evening
Humour
Mike
Audition
Character Always Me
Japanese
Maintain
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
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There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.
John Foster / United States Secretary Of State
Curious
Direct
Film
Independent
Independent Film
Speak
Myself People Doing
Combine
Japanese
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
J. Maarten Troost / Writer
Chinese
Luck
Debilitating
Student
Germans
Japanese
Loans
Student Loans
Unencumbered
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It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
Authority
Conditions
Living Conditions
Muster
Surrender
Bluff
Camp
Ensure
Immediately
Japanese
Improved
Officially
Pows
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As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.
Henry Rollins / Musician
Art
Friendly
Invisible
Literature
Polite
Art Music Literature
Japanese
Remote
Vest
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I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.
Melanie Rawn / Author
Chinese
Dictionary
Fabulous
Hebrew
Majors
Oxford
Plus
Simultaneous
Arabic
German
Languages
Japanese
Translation
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There are so many role models who I watched and idolised growing up, mainly guys with a similar athletic style to myself. I loved Dynamite Kid, Eddie Guerrero, and Rey Mysterio, as well as Japanese juniors like Jushin Liger, Ultimo Dragon, and Tiger Mask.
Neville /
Dynamite
Juniors
Mask
Models
Role Models
Watched
Eddie
Japanese
Mainly
Similar
Tiger
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I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a young, tannic red wine is something familiar to an Asian palate.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. / Critic
Familiar
Fondness
Palate
Red Wine
Wine
Asians
Beverage
Japanese
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I believe in the fact that an audience has one heart. I can just tell you one thing: If I sing the 'Adagio,' and I pull it out with all the honesty I have - whether they're Japanese, Italian, American or Belgian or French - they will react in the same way.
Lara Fabian / Singer
Audience
Honesty
Italian
One Thing
Believe Heart I Believe
French
Japanese
Pull
React
Sing
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Japanese children have infinitely more developed bodies than those in the West. From the age of two, a child learns to sit in a perfectly balanced manner; between two and three, the child begins to bow regularly, which is a wonderful exercise for the body.
Peter Brook / Theatre Director
Balanced
Exercise
Begins
Bodies
Bow
Developed
Japanese
Infinitely
Learns
Manner
Perfectly
Regularly
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After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Harry Seidler / Architect
Architecture
Technology
War
Advanced Technology
Allowing
Characteristics
Earthquakes
Tall
Traditional
World War Ii
Advanced
Buildings
Earthquake
Expressing
Japanese
Infusing
Resistant
Strides
World War
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Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.
Ian Watson /
Patterns
Science Fiction
Tokyo
Cultural
Futures
Japanese
Presents
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The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those works.
Arne Glimcher / Art Dealer
Economy
Expensive
Tubes
Japanese
Market
Prices
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People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields.
Shigeru Miyamoto / Video Game Designer
Comparison
Developers
Fields
Games
Taste
Western
Good People Taste
Japanese
Terms
Videogames
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In the eighties, there was a huge shift in the humor of Japanese television. Up until then, the humor was garnered by people who said humorous things, but in the '80s, it was garnered by people who were being laughed at while the audience watches and watches.
Hirokazu Kore-Eda /
Humorous
Laughed
Watches
Eighties
Japanese
Shift
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The ward designs were co-created by myself and Lauren K. Cannon. She read how they were described in 'The Warded Man,' and we had long discussions about what sources to draw from for the symbols, drawing inspiration from Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Sanskrit.
Peter V. Brett / Novelist
Chinese
Drawing
Lauren
Arabic
Cannon
Discussions
Japanese
Sources
Ward
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The media was always so focused on the money a movie makes. But I was in Times Square, and a bunch of Japanese tourists looked at me and started shouting, 'Toula!' I loved it. It's these tiny moments of connection that register with me the most and always have.
Nia Vardalos / Actress
Register
Shouting
Times Square
Tourists
Money Always Me
Connection
Japanese
Square
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Perhaps the writer I've read the most of is Haruki Murakami, the Japanese writer, but I wouldn't necessarily say he's a favourite. I read him because I find his work so intriguing, but I don't necessarily feel I would follow this writer to the ends of the earth.
Shaun Tan / Illustrator
Favourite
Intriguing
Japanese
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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States uprooted more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent, most of them American citizens, and confined them in internment camps. The Solicitor General was largely responsible for the defense of those policies.
Neal Katyal /
American Citizens
Camps
Confined
Defense
Descent
Internment
People American More
Harbor
Japanese
Largely
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Policies
Solicitor
Uprooted
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Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.
Martin Jacques / Journalist
Developing
Reliability
Standards
Forms
Consumer
Embracing
Japanese
Lean
Production
Manufacture
New Forms
Price
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At times, I do Tabata, a high-intensity Japanese training regimen, in which I must do 20 seconds of a specific body part with 10 seconds of rest. This must be done eight times within four minutes. Your heart rate shoots through the roof, but you burn a lot of fat.
Arjun Rampal / Film Actor
Eight
Heart
Heart Rate
Minutes
Rate
Roof
Seconds
Training
Fat
Burn
Rest
Japanese
Regimen
Shoots
Specific
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My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.
Fred Armisen / Actor
Dad
Mom
Brazil
Couple
Grew
Long
Long Island
Stuff
Venezuela
Years
Lot
Then
Around
German
Lived
Island
Head
Japanese
Put
Traveling
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Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.'
Hideo Kojima / Video Game Designer
Arena
Degrees
Give Me
Hints
Instruction
Throwing
Direction
Japanese
Provide
Service
Supposed
They Say
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Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku is the shortest poem form in the world. These are a few examples of a minimalistic aesthetic in Japanese art and culture.
Fumio Sasaki /
Aesthetic
Black And White
Figures
Negative
Traditional
Brush
Examples
Japanese
Poem
Shortest
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Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
Haruki Murakami / Writer
America
Novel
Thinking
Writing
Asked
Japanese
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We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima - the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.
Eli Yishai /
Electricity
Gasoline
Gaza
Hiroshima
Moving
Fast
Flatten
Japanese
Nagasaki
Neighborhoods
Surrendering
Vehicles
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Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.
Fujio Mitarai /
Aim
Canon
Debt
Decline
Fall
Mindset
People
Products
Companies
Falling
Japanese
Market
Market Share
Raising
Sales
Tend
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With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.
Jay Inslee / Governor Of Washington
Jobs
Technology
Action
Clean
Clean Energy
Danish
Ingenuity
Lost
Manufacturing
Millions
Order
Bill
Bold
Tap
Energy Bill
Lead
Germans
Japanese
Manufacturing Jobs
Wage
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When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.
Alexandra Bracken / Author
Camps
Internment
Propaganda
Darkest
Fears
Japanese
Specifically
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Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in the Philippines escaping Japanese military chasing after them - I grew up with what they deem now as trauma, generational trauma.
Tamlyn Tomita / Film Actress
Running
Chasing
Escaping
Grew
Growing Up
Half
Military
Philippines
Trauma
World War Ii
War Mother World
Deem
War World Mother
Generational
Japanese
Literally
World War
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The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers.
Gene Luen Yang / Writer
War
Allies
Boxers
Chinese
Christian
Illiterate
Poor
Rebellion
Soil
Starving
Boxer
Side
Year
Europeans
Fought
Japanese
Referred
Teenagers
Whom
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First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
Gustav Stickley / Furniture Designer
Beauty
Architecture
Charm
Curves
Features
Felt
Firm
Lines
Long
Bare
Open
Clearly
First
Hidden
Japanese
Log
Ornament
Plaster
Revealed
Structural
Themselves
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I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.
Hugh Jackman / Actor
Australia
Australia Day
Australian
Different
Distinctive
Grew
Italian
Korean Food
Multicultural
World
Everywhere
Very
Love Food World
Lots
Around
French
Different Types
Japanese
Types
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I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.
Zaha Hadid / Architect
Animated
Appreciated
Dare
Designers
Fabrics
Lie
Japanese
Proportions
Something Else
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If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.
Michele Bachmann / United States Representative
American History
Camps
Census
Census Bureau
Data
Fbi
Internment
Organization
Request
Bureau
Collected
Organizations
Handed
Japanese
Roosevelt
Rounded
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