#japan

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#body #enough #fish #fishy #food

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#germany #here #japan #partner #right

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

#am #america #asked #come #i

I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe. ↗

— Hidetoshi Nakata

#first #i #interested #japanese #more

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan. ↗

— Hidetoshi Nakata

#europe #everyone #find #how #i

We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#areas #cooperative #draw #economy #exploit

We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well! ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#administration #against #barbaric #commend #his

It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together. ↗

— Gackt

#japanese-singer #change

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

#art history #back #because #came #chinese

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers. ↗

— Barney Ross

#am #attacked #awfully #because #carriers