#japanese

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#american #between #break #could #declaration

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#china #economy #exaggerated #experience #important

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. ↗

— Paul Getty

#immensely #impressed #industrious #japan #japanese

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#convinced #even #japanese #japanese people #necessary

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#country #dollar #duty #fact #first

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#definitely #high #i #japan #japanese

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#day #ended #fighting #japan #japanese

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#closely #comes #finnish #form #interest

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#both #english #english literature #extraordinary #fiction

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#been #cultivated #east #europe #european