#japan

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#i #japanese #late #literature #missing

I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#arts #emperor #i #important #japan

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#cinema #festival #film #film festival #i

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#country #dominant #i #i can #japan

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas. ↗

— Cher

#aunt #bad #cheap #christmas #everything

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris. ↗

— John C. Danforth

#japanese #lisa #mona #paris #visiting

Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#ghosts #japanese-horror-movies #death

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. ↗

— Soichiro Honda

#arise #best #equipped #go #goes

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#asia #commercial #countries #england #fifty

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#been #broken #either #england #france