Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
In a way, 'Sin City''s designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy.
The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.
I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.
They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.
I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.
If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
You can't be citing Japanese internment camps for anything the president elect is going to do!
Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.
Eat only until you're 45 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.
The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.
I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.