I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.
The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.
Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
So, fortune cookies: invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans. They are more American than anything else.
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.
