#japanese

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#coast #during #exclusion #executive #february

私は何ものかが、私を殺してくれるのを待っていた。 ところがそれは、何者かが私を生かしてくれるのを待っているのと同じことなのである。 ――『仮面の告白』より ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#japanese #life #death

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris. ↗

— John C. Danforth

#japanese #lisa #mona #paris #visiting

The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cars #chinese #clear #electronics #germans

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#before #behind #better #both #did

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. ↗

— Gustav Stickley

#bare #beauty #charm #clearly #curves

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact. ↗

— Barney Ross

#coming #get #got #her #intact

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese. ↗

— John McGahern

#anything #being #chinese #else #i

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#attracted #been #culture #cultures #had

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#arabic #areas #behind #chinese #combined