Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion.
Hattori Hanzo: [in Japanese] I'm retired.
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.
The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign people. Unfortunately, they to...
Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of antiquity -- they all placed the Golden Age, the Age of Truth, the rule of Kronos or of Ra or of any other ...
Killing Japanese didn’t bother me at that time. It was getting the war over with that bothered me. So I wasn’t worried particularly about how many people we killed in getting the job done… . All war is immoral, and if you let it bother you, you...
I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitari...
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
Describe plum-blossoms? Better than my verses...white Wordless Butterflies
We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.
I'm half-Japanese, so I collect toys, like a Yayoi Kusama stuffed pumpkin.
Indian junk food is my sin, even though I pretend to like Japanese.
Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.
Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.
