Quotes of: Japanese Keyword

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

The Japanese Way of the Artist: Living the Japanese Arts & Ways, Brush Meditation, The Japanese Way of the Flower

In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

The Japanese Way of the Artist: Living the Japanese Arts & Ways, Brush Meditation, The Japanese Way of the Flower

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

To sum up what is most crucial in Japanese political culture: the Japanese have never been encouraged to think that the force of an idea could measure up to the physical forces of a government. The key to understanding Japanese power relations is tha...

The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation

Japanese Businessman: [in Japanese; subtitled] Do you like Ferraris? Go Go Yubari: [in Japanese] Ferraris... Italian trash. [Japanese businessman giggles] Go Go Yubari: Do you want to screw me? [Japanese businessman giggles again] Go Go Yubari: Don't...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group.

The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

Hattori Hanzo: What brings you to Okinawa? The Bride: I'm here to see a man. Hattori Hanzo: Oh yeah? You have a friend living in Okinawa? The Bride: Not quite. Hattori Hanzo: Not a friend? The Bride: I've never met him. Hattori Hanzo: Never? Who is h...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those...

Arne Glimcher

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.

David Chang

The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.

Hideki Tojo

In order to live without creating any serious problems for the group's harmony, people avoid expressing their ideas clearly, even the point of avoiding giving a simple yes or no answer. If a person really wanted to say no, he or she said nothing at f...

The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

Tadao Ando

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

Sushi Bar Assistant: [Japanese] What'd ya want? The Bride: [English] I beg your pardon? Hattori Hanzo: [English] Oh..."drink" [makes drinking motion with hand] The Bride: [English] Oh, yes, a bottle of warm sake please. Hattori Hanzo: [English] Warm ...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, every...

John Lasseter

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends

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

Carlos Ghosn

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Shigeru Miyamoto