#japan

I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#i #important #japan #successful #tell

...I was not prepared for the feel of the noodles in my mouth, or the purity of the taste. I had been in Japan for almost a month, but I had never experiences anything like this. The noodles quivered as if they were alive, and leapt into my mouth where they vibrated as if playing inaudible music. ↗

— Ruth Reichl

#japan #experience

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#billion #dollars #donor #further #humanitarian

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? ↗

— Walter F. Mondale

#around #japanese #kids #our #sweep

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #japanese #literature #models #my own

It is hard to be an individual in Japan. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#individual #japan

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#else #father #i #japanese #just

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#been #belonged #company #easy #graduated

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#conclusions #every #i #i think #japan

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there. ↗

— Bill Murray

#being #either #entire #entire time #feel