#japan

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. ↗

— Dan Rather

#attacked #had #harbor #i #ii

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#easy #had #having #japanese #once

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#beautiful #beautiful paintings #design #japanese #minimum

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#divine #eternal #inside #japan #like

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

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

Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#ago #anymore #crying #earth #feeling

Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation. ↗

— Ron Kind

#china #debt #foreign #government #interests