I believe that a lot of what we put in our bodies really can harm us. It's been proven that people who eat Mediterranean and Japanese diets live for a very long time.
My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
Mulwray's Gardener: [in heavy Japanese accent, referring to the grass] Bad for glass. Jake Gittes: Yeah, sure. Bad for the glass.
Walt Kowalski: [about his son] I worked in Ford for 50 years and he sells Japanese cars.
[Japanese version with English subtitles] Jiji: [Jiji's paws are covered with flour] At this rate, I'll be a white cat by the morning.
[running from Randall in the door vault, Sulley and Mike's shadows appear behind a Japanese paper screen] Mike: Come on, it slides, it slides!
Sanjuro: [in Japanese] You want to hire me as a body guard? Watch. I'll show you my ability.
Inokichi, Ushitora's rotund brother: [in Japanese] [to Unosuke] Inokichi, Ushitora's rotund brother: Hey, you don't know him, but he's one of the best.
I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!
From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'
By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.
And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
As a Japanese actor, I really want to work with a lot of actors and actresses in the world and many directors who have many different kinds of talents. I feel like nationally doesn't matter at all.
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
