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Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren't enough euros to go around. "The entire EU is short on coins."And I say, "Really?" because there are plenty of them in Germany. I'm never asked for exact change in Spain or Holland or Italy, so I think the real problem lies with the Parisian cashiers, who are, in a word, lazy. Here in Tokyo they're not just hard working but almost violently cheerful. Down at the Peacock, the change flows like tap water. The women behind the registers bow to you, and I don't mean that they lower their heads a little, the way you might if passing someone on the street. These cashiers press their hands together and bend from the waist. Then they say what sounds to me like "We, the people of this store, worship you as we might a god.

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.

While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it__ the robotic mecha that capture the imagination.

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa__ films can be an exercise in endurance.

Kon__ films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.

Insta-love isn__ something that happens in real life. Ithappens in the books I read, but not in the world I live. Though herestands this beautiful, sexy, funny, sweet and amazing guy who hasdone everything short of professing love at first sight to me and I__still standing here like a pair of lungs suffocating, needing him inorder to breathe.

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.