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To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.


M. Thomas Gammarino


#creativity #failure #japan

Il y a toujours moyen d'obéir. C'est ce que les cerveaux occidentaux devraient comprendre.


Amélie Nothomb


#japan

Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films.


Frederik L. Schodt


#comics #culture #entertainment #japan #manga

Wait, and you had to ask him if Faye’s in danger? IF? Okay, first of all, I’m just going to admit that I didn’t know Japan had a Mafia, but I also didn’t know they got a Disney World. If someone gets an invitation from the Mafia, I’d say there’s potential for a bit of danger, wouldn’t you? I mean, am I the only one here who saw Goodfellas?


Elle Lothlorien


#japan

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.


Jack Adams


#carrier #did #group #japanese #launch

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.


Jack Adams


#believe #better #did #equipment #fighting

Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!


Ryūnosuke Akutagawa


#fire #japan #japanese #japanese-literature #death

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.


Morinosuke Kawaguchi


#culture #japan #manga #technology #design

Yet for the first time in three days, I want something. I want the forest lord to turn me into a cedar. The very oldest islanders say that if you are in the interior mountains on the night when the forest lord counts his trees, he includes you in the number and turns you into a tree.


David Mitchell


#japan #dreams

Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During the hours spent in front of a pachinko machine, there is an almost total lack of stimulation other than the occasional rush of ball bearings. There is no thought, no movement; you have no control over the flow of balls, apart from holding a little lever which shoots them up to the top of the machine; you sit there enveloped in a cloud of heavy cigarette smoke, semi-dazed by the racket of millions of ball bearings falling through machines around you. Pachinko verges on sensory deprivation. It is the ultimate mental numbing, the final victory of the educational system." - Lost Japan, Eng. vers., 1996


Alex Kerr


#education #educational-system #japan #pachinko #sensory-deprivation