Quotes about Japan

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Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when s — Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something. — Kentetsu Takamori, Unlocking Tannisho: Shinran's Words on the Pure Land Path
Many Buddhist temple priests regard their parishioners as possessions and fear their departure as a diminishing of asset — Kentetsu Takamori
Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. Dur — Alex Kerr
It was Daisuke's conviction that all morality traced its origins to social realities. He believed there could be no grea — Sōseki Natsume, And Then
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If you have time to chatter,Read books.If you have time to read,Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.If you have time to — Nanao Sakaki
From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to co — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened. — Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I tast — Shan Sa, The Girl Who Played Go
One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory. — Teresa R. Funke, The No-No Boys
[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love wi — Sir Laurens van der Post
[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be. — Sir Laurens van der Post
You know that feeling when you’re suddenly startled out of a deep sleep, and you’re in that hazy middle world where you’ — Lisa Daily, Single-Minded: A Novel
A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is not negated. In the — Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love
When I was a student, there wasn't a single thing we did that was unrelated to others. It was all for the Emperor, or pa — Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō
But once I could look back on it in a calmer frame of mind, it struck me that his motive was surely not so simple and st — Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro
But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'? You’ll neve — Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro
The call for political freedom took place long ago. The call for freedom of speech is also a thing of the past. Freedom — Sōseki Natsume, Sanshirō
Just as there is an archetype of woman as the object of man's eternal love, so there must be an archetype of her as the — Fumiko Enchi, Masks