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The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness
Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.
Mayoimashita. Can you help me find my cat? - Watashi
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.
O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.
Now you can be a kikei, too.
Remembered what Dai Bingguo had said to me when he pulled out the photograph of his granddaughter: "This is what we're in it for." It
Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ni de."
" In this world, I love you the most.
Two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.
If you suddenly want me to act with Son Dongwoon one-on-one, forget it!
Say it again, Na'Chi."
"I love you, Light Blade,
OH KYO KUN! Isn't it said that eating pink noodles turns you into a horny pervert?!
On a recent flight from Tokyo to Beijing, at around the time that my lunch tray was taken away, I remembered that I needed to learn Mandarin. "Goddamnit," I whispered. "I knew I forgot something.
My little china girl
you shouldn't mess with me
Tendai remembered his last birthday. It seemed one shouldn't make wishes idly. Who knew which spirits were listening. He considered a moment and then thought, I wish for courage. Because with courage, you weren't afraid to look at the truth. You weren't afraid to ask questions or do the right thing.
This Heart at Peace is My Homeland. (Su Shih)
Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.'
I look Asian. I need to go to Japan.
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How does it feel to be helpless, Led?
To depend on something that fails you?
There's no more running from who you are; no one to hold you together anymore.
You're alone now--
The ghost of Tokyo has come for you all.
Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics - Loyalty being the other.
Again," Reyes-Wan said.
People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.
When men see Han-shan
They all say he's crazy
And not much to look at -
Dressed in rags and hides.
They don't get what I say
And I don't talk their language.
All I can say to those I meet:
Try and make it to Cold Mountain.
Japanese tea ceremony,
I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
Nobody wants a house in Osaka,' he said, and it was strange to hear him switch suddenly to foreign pronunciation in the middle of his English. 'It would mean you had to live in Osaka.'
'What's wrong with it?'
'It's like . . . Birmingham.
The prostitutes were from the lowest social levels and, like all women who catered to foreign men, came to be called rashamen, "Western sheep," and were ostracized from Japanese society. 29 From this group of Japanese women the Western artists and photographers found their models.
You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea ...
Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.
O laugh is pr<>ong>oong>per t<>ong>oong> the man.
God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them, and let's have peace.
Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?'
'I'm called Chocho,' Will said ...
'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!
Bushido. The sense of honor which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power, - that was the strongest of motives.
Bow to your sensei. Bow to your sensei!
I'm like this yo-yo with a three-thousand-mile string." - Tai
There was something strangely compelling about a Japanese guy with lamb-chop sideburns and a voice so shrill you could be forgiven for thinking his testicles were wired to the national grid.
Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).
For Hanalea the Warrior!
Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.
The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know all the while that it is an illusion.
What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.
Which I wish to remark
And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing.
-Jing-mei
When I'm out the country, niggas call me Neeki. Hi, how are you? Yes, it's nice to meet me.
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.
Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her steadfast loyalty and love for her family are truly inspirational for young and old alike.
My j<>ong>oong>b has always been t<>ong>oong> entertain pe<>ong>oong>ple. I want pe<>ong>oong>ple t<>ong>oong> laugh.
When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'
Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we!
Impressive, most impressive, worthy lad,
Thine Obi-Wan hath taught thee well, and thou
Hast master'd all thy fears. Now, go! Release
Thine anger, for thy hate alone can strike
Me down!
Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.
Let me help. Rhymes with I love you, right?
We must not again underestimate the Japanese.
May I live this day ... C<>ong>oong>mpassi<>ong>oong>nate <>ong>oong>f heart, / Gentle in w<>ong>oong>rd, / Graci<>ong>oong>us in awareness / C<>ong>oong>urage<>ong>oong>us in th<>ong>oong>ught, / Gener<>ong>oong>us in l<>ong>oong>ve / Eternal Ech<>ong>oong>es
Even if you don't mean it, I want you to take me somewhere and make love to me.
Dai Uie talking to Kane, from Game Boys
The Emperor and his ministers might dance Western dances and even, in violation of traditional Japanese propriety, smile Western smiles. But their underlying and deadly earnest aim was always to wipe the smiles off European faces.
How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.
Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries - only those you make yourself.
When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language
Baji-naji, nand' paidhi. Fortune has a human face and bastard Chance whores drunken down your streets.
I can't imagine Japanese food without dashi, a broth made with kelp and dried bonito flakes. It has the aroma of the sea, tinged with a subtle smokiness, and adds a very important, distinct flavor.
For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.
Whenever I explore the land of Yin, I always take one on the chin.
I broke up with Ren a year and nine months ago. Soon it will be two springs.
My 20th birthday is in march. I'm working hard to buy myself a present.
A one-way ticket to Tokyo.
I will just carry my guitar and cigarettes.
My clothes are very popular in Japan.
Japanese poetry does what poetry does everywhere: it intensifies and exalts experience.
My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;
If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -
A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.
Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!
Umica ka hanu
HOLD THE BREATH
Be patient; don't give up.
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.
The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.
We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
Ngari-ngari - literally
This rootless shifting east and west
I can't suppress a smile myself
but how else can I make
the whole world my home.
If any of my old friends
come around asking
say I'm down at the river
by the Second Fushimi Bridge.
SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito
It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.
New York City vagrant:
"What sort of 'nese are you people? Are you Chinese, or Japanese, or Javanese?"
Kakuzo Okakura responds:
"We are Japanese gentleman. But what sort of 'key are you? Are you a Yankee, or a donkey, or a monkey?
Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you. Dong le ma?
Ani l'dodi, ve dodi li. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.
I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.
Zhi yin. The one who understands your music.
I am Chun the Unavoidable. Tonight, O Lith, tonight it is two long bright threads for you.
Now. Put it in forward."
"Okay, just don't hurt Yoko." "Yoko?"
"My car." "You named your car Yoko? As in Ono?"
"You have a better name?" "How about Subaru?
"I'm shifting!
The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them. They prefer the bonsai tree after the valiant blossoming is over, the leaves fallen. When bareness reveals a merit born in the vegetable struggling.
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
Gnani' [the englightened one] gives freedom from all sufferings. Outside [world] reigns the cycle of antagonistic [painful] times, Kaliyug. On the contrary, it will even take away whatever happiness you may have.
My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on.
Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.
Karate-do begins with courtesy and ends with rei.
I think there's a little me hiding behind your leg, Chichi."
"I'm Goten."
"I'm Goku. Hi!"
...
"Daddy!
So, it's like calling out for Chinese? An order of Sum Yung Gai with wings?
Japan appears to be the birthplace of the soup and the home of the stew.
When I say panni here, everyone says Bless you.
I want my narre to mean me.Narre-- Mark Haddon
In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.
Another thing that Denis likes about Thailand is the concept of jai yen, cool heart. The worst thing one can do in Thailand is to lose one's jai yen. This is why Thais have no patience for uppity foreigners, which is pretty much all foreigners.
Marry, this is miching mal hecho. It means mischief!