508 Quotes About Japan

What comes from the heart will go to the heart

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Having a date with someone other than your ex-wife after being a married man for more than twenty five years was an important occasion alright, but wearing a tie she bought with such strong emotional value attached to it was a form of cowardice, a subconscious reluctance to let go.

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit.

Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.

That Seigo could go into geisha houses, accept luncheon invitations, drop in at the Club, see people off at Shimabashi, meet them at Yokohama, run out to Oiso to humor the elders—that he could put in his appearance at large gatherings from morning to evening without seeming either triumphant or dejected—this must be because he was thoroughly accustomed to this kind of life, thought Daisuke; it was probably like the jellyfish's floating in the sea and not finding it salty.

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

En una calurosa y sofocante noche de verano…Maruyama Ōkyo se despertó de un intranquilo sueño para contemplar a una muerta. Era joven, hermosa y pálida. De una lividez sobrenatural. Se podía atisbar su piel exangüe furtivamente entre los pliegues de su holgado kimono funerario de color blanco hueso. Su descolorida apariencia contrastaba con las estrechas hendiduras de sus ojos negros y el largo cabello azabache que colgaba desgreñado de sus hombros. No tenía pies.

What makes this study different is that it studies Japanese cross-cultural adaptation by focusing on student success rather than student difficulties.