#japanese

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#behind #being #bewildered #could #fence

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. ↗

— Rob Walton

#army #camps #companies #concentration #dupont

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#come #especially #find #head #japanese

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. ↗

— Paul Getty

#immensely #impressed #industrious #japan #japanese

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#convinced #even #japanese #japanese people #necessary

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#country #dollar #duty #fact #first

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#definitely #high #i #japan #japanese

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#college #culture #famous #father #geisha

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#closely #comes #finnish #form #interest

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. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#both #english #english literature #extraordinary #fiction