508 Quotes About Japan

The American public has been persistently told that the Korean people are a degenerate and contemptible nation, incapable of better things, intellectually inferior, and better off under Japanese rule than independent.

Thingschanging, failing apart, fading, another year, a few moremoves, a hard person who doesn't give a fuck, a boredom somonumental it humbles, arrangements so fleeting made bypeople you don't even know that it requires you to lose anysense of reality you might have once acquired, expectationsso unreasonable you become superstitious about evermatching them.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

Peace is not just a desired state of being for people, but also enables the flourishing of nature as well as human-created landscapes.

Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.

As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life.

A nyelvtanulás sikerének ismérveként szokták emlegetni, hogy tud-e valaki egy pohár vizet kérni az adott nyelven. Japánba készülő turistáink számára ide írom, hogy ott ezt így kell mondani: „Mizu-o sukoshikudasai”: „Ereszkedjék le hozzám egy kis vízzel”. Legtöbbször nem is kell mondani, mert a figyelmes asztaltárs megelőzi: O-mizu-o agemashoka? Felemelkedhetek önhöz a tiszteletreméltó vízzel?

A mi fülünkben komikusan cseng, hogy a pelenka: „o-shime”, a bili pedig "o-maru"– tiszteletreméltó benedvesíteni, illetőleg belepisilni való.

I really love traveling to Japan.