508 Quotes About Japan

Still he considered playing Pachinko the best investment of his free time, soaking in the local stench and bad breathe of other lonely Japanese people as an alternative way of blending into the colorful local scenes which he yearned to be a part of.

Luna Sea’s music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy.

Offerings gleam beneath consecrated trees,boulders, and caves where Kami nature spiritsminister to congregations of saki cans, lotus root, and the glow of tangerines; still-lives silent as prayer.

If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

This may seem labouring the obvious, but in Japan one meets intelligent people who claim that ‘logic’ is something invented in the West to allow Westerners to win discussions. Indeed, the belief is widespread that the Japanese can as happily do without logic now as they supposedly have for centuries past.

We passeerden een boom vol roze kersenbloesem en een windvlaag blies een school aan blaadjes weg. Ze lieten los, weg van de boom met zijn diepe wortels in de grond en kozen, net als ik, voor een leven met de wind mee. Ik boog voorover en volgde de dansende blaadjes in de zijspiegel van de auto. Ik wilde de lente niet uit het oog verliezen.

We live together, but I am not Noriko's cat.Forever and ever I am your cat, Satoru. That's why I can't become Noriko's.

It's Friday afternoon and I'm alone. Rain drips from the eaves, a reminder that there is a world outside this room.