japan

I__ very headstrong. Once I__e caught fire, there__ no dousing the flames__ll engines full speed ahead.

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.

The new fans of Japan won__ be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

The physical impact of taiko music, along with the sheer visual poetry of a choreographed ensemble presenting its music in perfect synchrony, is so powerful and inviting that taiko is beginning to catch on as Japan's most influential and lasting gift to world music.

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

Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films.

Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.

Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.

In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that country, if you are too much of a rugged individualist, it might actually indicate that you are a weak, unreliable character and that you are selfish, in a childish, willful kind of way.

Life on earth survives thanks to diversity, says Sekunda, because changing circumstances means today's winners can suddenly become tomorrow's losers. When the meteor hits, when the Green Revolution fails, when the bees unexpectedly die, the kind of anomalous diversity found in the Galapagos Islands__r in the technology of Japan__s exactly what will save us from the most dangerous failure of all: global success.

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.

My Japanese isn__ much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

Daisuke was of course equipped with conversation that, even if they went further, would allow him to retreat as if nothing had happened. He had always wondered at the conversations recorded in Western novels, for to him they were too bald, too self indulgent, and moreover, too unsubtly rich. However they read in the original, he thought they reflected a taste that could not be translated into Japanese. Therefore, he had not the slightest intention of using imported phrases to develop his relationship with Michiyo. Between the two of them at least, ordinary words sufficed perfectly well. But the danger was of slipping from point A to point B without realizing it. Daisuke managed to stand his ground only by a hair's breadth. When he left, Michiyo saw him to the entranceway and said, "Do come again, please? It's so lonely.

Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.