#japan

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do. ↗

— Bart Gordon

#before #certainly #chinese #else #europeans

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough. ↗

— Norman Granz

#area #because #been #economic #enough

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#aged #aging #had #health #japan

The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape. ↗

— Owen Hart

#fight #four #go #got #hard

We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#did #go #japanese #launch #look

Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. ↗

— Tojo Hideki

#clearly #considerable #four #japan #maintenance

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#always #approach #been #high #high level

It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China? ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#asian countries #because #britain #china #contain

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#foreign #foreign oil #fuel-efficient #global #global warming