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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux

Good, Made, Manners

The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world.
Evan Davis

Cars, Clear, Machine

When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive.
Evan Davis

Down, Country, Makes

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
Dan Rather

War, America, Harbor

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
Carlos Ghosn

Change, Necessary, Convinced

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company.
Carlos Ghosn

Hurt, Through, Country

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
Carlos Ghosn

Worry, Losing, Motivation

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
David Rockefeller

Time, Easy, Once

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
Ted Allen

Love, Everything, Cooking

I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.
Corey Haim

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
Suzanne Vega

Life, Writing, Sense

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.
Masaharu Morimoto

Work, Food, Long

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
Paul Samuelson

Change, Criticism, Interest

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
Jane Seymour

War, Mother, Three

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
Harry Browne

War, End, Single

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
Dana Rohrabacher

War, Close, Thousands

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.
Steven Seagal

American, Speak, Heard

If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.
Emmanuelle Beart

Love, Perfect, Rest

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
Hu Shih

True, Christian, Desire

With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.
Jay Inslee

Family, Technology, Lost

People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.
David Mitchell

Often, General, Message

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
David Mitchell

Good, Food, Makes

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
Minoru Yamasaki

Country, Europe, Copied

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
Minoru Yamasaki

Thought, Find, Influence

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
Jack Adams

Training, Watch, Basic

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
Jack Adams

Group, Air, Carrier

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
Jack Adams

Men, Fighting, Themselves

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
Jack Adams

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
Jack Adams

May, Islands, Invaded

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
Jack Adams

Moving, Two, Found

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