508 Quotes About Japan

He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands.

They say, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair.

Even if one turns away from harmony for just one night, suffering ensues.

In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.

From theme song of the show: Boken Desho Desho, boken de ga.......its a good song

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

I don't need to eat the stuff now because now I'm here-right in the middle of it!The soup I ordered in Colorado had all these little slices of vegetables and things, which at the time just looked like kitchen scrapings to me. But now I'm in the miso soup myself,just like those bits of vegetable. I'm floating around in this giant bowl of it, and that's good enough for me.

By almost every account he's a fine young man. I'm simply trying to figure out why I should care that he's three centimeters taller than he was in May.

By historic custom only the descendants of the sprawling, ancient, semi-divine families of the Minowara, Takashima, and Fujimoto were entitled to the rank of Shogun.