#japan

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Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.


Paul Samuelson


#change #criticism #explains #interest #japan

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.


Jil Sander


#another #appease #difference #enjoy #equal

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.


Jane Seymour


#during #holland #ii #japanese #lived

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.


Curtis Sittenfeld


#else #feel #girl #hard #imagine

Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.


Picabo Street


#energy #every #flow #going #head

The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible!


Ryūnosuke Akutagawa


#japan #japanese #japanese-literature #beauty

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.


Howard Stringer


#foreigner #frankly #generous #how #i

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.


Maurice Strong


#already #because #car #cell #corporation

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.


Ichiro Suzuki


#emotions #feelings #japanese #kill #own

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.


Paul Theroux


#good manners #indistinguishable #japanese #made #manners