508 Quotes About Japan

Japan has somehow managed to achieve the ideal attitude to eating: an obsession with culinary pleasure that is actually conductive to health.

From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.

I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people.

Imagination is ruler of darkness, twisting and racking one’s mind until it succumbs to the will of the master.

...I was not prepared for the feel of the noodles in my mouth, or the purity of the taste. I had been in Japan for almost a month, but I had never experiences anything like this. The noodles quivered as if they were alive, and leapt into my mouth where they vibrated as if playing inaudible music.

Japanese cuisine did not change all at once but in stages.

The Japanese only really started eating what we think of as Japanese food in the years after the Second World War.

The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.

In Japan, food filters into every aspect of the culture.