I do think there will be more Japanese companies expanding out of Japan, and there will be more cross-border flow from Japan.
The Japanese are hard to figure out.
If I need to buy a TV, I'll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.
I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.
It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.
When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present once again. Today, we are on the verge of a very uncertain situation when either everything will end in catastrophe, or better people will come to power.
Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.
I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.
Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.
Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.
It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.
. . . Poetic injustice. . . having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese,. . . are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.
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.
We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?