I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.
I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
The Bride: [in Japanese] O-Ren Ishii! You and I have unfinished business!
Caproni: Tell me Japanese Boy. Is the wind still rising?
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
