#japan

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#cooking #difficult #food #i #japanese

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#cheese #culture #food #french #genius

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#awards #britain #british #changing #eligible

We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#competition #creating #cuts #enough #europe

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#believing #both #both sides #extremists #friendly

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#decided #democracy #fixing #i #japan

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#because #build #communism #democracy #discussed

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

— Joseph Jarman

#japanese #traditional #training #well #word

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#anymore #been #better #cases #copies

My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#canadian #goal #i #japan #korea