“My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.” YearsTwoCountryHundredOppositesTwentiesOpeningObservationJapanSplitsAmbiguityPresent DayTwo OppositesModernisation Author:Kenzaburo Oe
“The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.” CountryPositionJapanAsiaOrientationAmbiguousInvaders Author:Kenzaburo Oe
“Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.” PeopleWorldHeartWarCountryLeftMarkDeterminedJapanBombingRenounceAtomic BombIndelible Author:Eisaku Sato
“If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.” IfsWorldChildrenCountryWould BeResponsibilityCompanyDyingDeterminationInvestingVery GoodDevelopingJapanGood BusinessMusterSense Of ResponsibilityXerox Author:Anne M. Mulcahy
“It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.” ThinkingFirstsCountryEconomyStrategySouthChinaEastJapanPhasesKoreaImportsSubstitutionSouth Korea Author:Jairam Ramesh
“The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.” CountryEconomyGrowingDirectBasesInvestmentProductionsEastJapanAsianImportsAccelerateAsian Countries Author:Toshihiko Fukui
“The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.” CountryProblemTodayCasesSeriousAgingPopulationJapanPaceOther CountriesRapidsDemographicsDeveloped Country Author:Toshihiko Fukui
“To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.” WayKindCountryHardAmericaSpeakEuropePressureIncrediblesOur CountryJapanSuperstar Author:Narada Michael Walden
“Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.” PersonsCountryUseEarthEnergyNationsWasteStandardsAlternativesGermanyJapanOther CountriesStandards Of LivingImportsSweden Author:Jimmy Carter
“Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.” ImportantCountryBasesRelationSouthChinaRussiaJapanKoreaAlliancesCooperativesSouth Korea Author:Junichiro Koizumi
“Many of the countries outpacing the United States in the deployment of high speed Internet services, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, have successfully combined municipal systems with privately deployed networks to wire their countries, .. As a country, we cannot afford to cut off any successful strategy if we want to remain internationally competitive.” IfsWantCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulCuttingInternetStrategySouthIncludingSpeedCanadaJapanWireKoreaDeploymentHigh SpeedSouth Korea Author:John McCain
“The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.” WellsCountryCommunitySupportTeacherInternationalJapanComparisonDo The BestSingaporeDenmarkFinland Author:Howard Gardner
“Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.” MindFirstsBookDifferentCountryWholeEyeThreeForceCenturyLatePerceptionScientistWestEastJapanRemarkableCivilizedMissionaryMarvelousDelightfulNineteenth CenturyBarbariansReconstructionThrough The EyesEast And West Author:Edwin O. Reischauer
“China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen.” IfsWorldCountryHappensPayChinaExpectedJapan Author:Jay Leno
“We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.” CountrySportsBehindsBoatJapanKoreaSkisSkiers Author:Steve Largent