#japan

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#additional #avoid #effort #every #fighting

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#dollar #exchange #fair #intervene #japan

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#copied #country #europe #japanese #japanese architecture

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy. ↗

— Adachi Zenko

#culture #gardens #japan #art

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#commodity #economies #financial #financial markets #global

For Sayonara, literally translated, 'Since it must be so,' of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the Auf Wiedershens and Au revoirs, it does not try to cheat itself by any bravado 'Till we meet again,' any sedative to postpone the pain of separation. It does not evade the issue like the sturdy blinking Farewell. Farewell is a father's good-by. It is - 'Go out in the world and do well, my son.' It is encouragement and admonition. It is hope and faith. But it passes over the significance of the moment; of parting it says nothing. It hides its emotion. It says too little. While Good-by ('God be with you') and Adios say too much. They try to bridge the distance, almost to deny it. Good-by is a prayer, a ringing cry. 'You must not go - I cannot bear to have you go! But you shall not go alone, unwatched. God will be with you. God's hand will over you' and even - underneath, hidden, but it is there, incorrigible - 'I will be with you; I will watch you - always.' It is a mother's good-by. But Sayonara says neither too much nor too little. It is a simple acceptance of fact. All understanding of life lies in its limits. All emotion, smoldering, is banked up behind it. But it says nothing. It is really the unspoken good-by, the pressure of a hand, 'Sayonara. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#emotion #english #farewell #father #french

As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life. ↗

— The Japan Foundation

#japan #japanese-literature #life

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them. ↗

— Steve Largent

#boat #countries #getting #japan #korea

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #bought #brazilians #came #families

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#continually #different #family #grew #half