I like to read the news, but when I pull up a Japanese site, and an article comes up with my face, I never read it.

I think that as a Chinese person, nobody will forget that in China's history, there was a war against the Japanese.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.

If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'

I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.

I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.

I can make chicken curry, rice, kheema... I am a foodie and enjoy varied cuisines. My favourites are Korean and Japanese.

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.

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

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.

Of course the Japanese and Peruvian fish are different, but it's the same Pacific Ocean. They are different, but I know fish.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

To have a Japanese wrestler standing as the face of professional wrestling, there's only one person for that spot, and it's me.

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms.

I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.

A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

I've been lucky: my Japanese genes - from my mother's side - and a lifelong moisturising routine have helped keep me looking good.

I'm not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.

Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.

People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.

Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

The WWE is a company that's in the world. There are many languages. There's India, there's Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, many languages.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don't know the Japanese words, they still sing along.

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

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