Selected quote list
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Manga, anime and cosplay are exports Japan can take pride in. These are things that draw good feelings about Japan from the people of the world. |
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| — Katsuhito Asano, vice foreign minister |
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Tokyo 2016 is making the environment an absolute priority as we bid to unite Green with 2016. This is a concrete commitment that we will offer the world. |
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| — Ichiro Kono, chairman and CEO of Tokyo 2016 |
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That's why I think it's a good thing that Japan lost World War II. If Japan had won, so many others would have lost their language and culture. |
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| — Koichi Kaizawa, official at the Biratori Ainu Culture Preservation Association |
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Japan always had this huge, unnatural imbalance of sending out far more tourists than it took in. The situation is finally becoming more normal. |
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| — Daisuke Tonai, a manager at the JNTO |
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Why is Japan considered Western and China not? There is no map of the West. |
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| — Guy Sorman, French philosopher, author and economist |
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I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it. |
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| — Chuichi Nagumo, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy |
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To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men. |
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| — Yoshida Shoin, scholar, military and political philosopher and teacher |
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Once the will is resolved, one’s spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thousand men. |
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| — Yoshida Shoin, scholar, military and political philosopher and teacher |
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It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product. |
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| — Ayumi Hamasaki, pop singer |
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You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. |
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| — Taisen Deshimaru, Soto Zen Buddhist teacher |
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We have successfully built up our national strength and prestige, accepting and adding to our civilization the art and science of the West. Now, I believe, the time has come for us to carry our art and culture to other countries. |
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| — Kōki Hirota, diplomat, politician and the 32nd Prime Minister |
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I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death. |
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| — Tomonobu Itagaki, video game designer |
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Japan's economy is falling off a cliff. There's nothing out there to drive growth. |
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| — Junko Nishioka, economist at RBS Securities Japan in Tokyo |
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We understand that the sight of hundreds of frozen tuna looks unique and interesting for foreign tourists. But they have to understand the Tsukiji market is a professional place, not an amusement park. |
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| — Yoshiaki Takagi, deputy director of the Tsukiji fish market |
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One myth that needs to be destroyed in Japan is that more working women will drive the birthrate even lower. Empirical evidence around the world shows the opposite is true. |
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| — Kathy Matsui, managing director of Goldman Sachs Japan |
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When Toyota sneezes, everyone catches a cold. |
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| — Toshiharu Nakano, owner of a Japanese kimono fabrics shop in Nagoya |
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