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Japanese cover teachers Quote of the Day

alexcase — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 08:35:21 +0000

“When a teacher is sick in Japan, the school does not provide a substitute. ‘If a teacher is away, then the children work on handouts and homework… With the first- and second-graders, we would be a bit concerned, so we’d have a teacher look in on them from time to time. But with the older kids, they study quietly.’ Of course… ‘if a teacher is gone for a month or more, we would want to get a substitute.’”

Thunder from the East pages 182-183

insipidly elegant toy food

alexcase — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:40:54 +0000

Japanese food, according to Simon Winchester in “Korea A Walk Through the Land of Miracles”

Japanese business strategy Quote of the day

alexcase — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:28:22 +0000

“We probably sell tens of thousands of products; we’ve never counted,” said Akira Kadota, a Panasonic spokesman in Tokyo. “Perhaps even a million?”

Defiantly, Panasonic Pushes a Vast Catalog, International Herald Tribune Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Sakura and sex Quote of the day

alexcase — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:40:11 +0000

“Japan is the only country I know where a flower can bring an entire nation to a state of near-sexual excitement” Karin Muller, Japanland pg 51 (See “Japanland” page link on the right for more quotes from this fairly highly recommended book)

Japanese heroes Quote of the day

alexcase — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:36:25 +0000

“John Wayne, Bruce Lee and Sir Galahad all wrapped up in one, with a bit of Yoda thrown in”

Samurai according to Karin Muller, Japanland pg 121

Salaryman life Quote of the Day

alexcase — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:04:21 +0000

“we have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer the unsufferable”

Emperor Hirohito on 15 Aug 1945, predicting 60 years of unpaid overtime and seeing your children only when they are asleep, all so Americans can bankrupt the world using their credit cards to buy nice reliable cars the people who made them could never afford (Japan being one of the last countries to be able to buy Lexus cars)

Nihonjinron quote of the century

alexcase — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:23:31 +0000

“The reason Japanese people are so short and have yellow skins is because they have eaten nothing but fish and rice for two thousand years… If we eat McDonald’s hamburgers and potatoes for a thousand years we will become taller, our skins become white, and our hair blonde”

McDonald’s Japan founder Den Fujita in 1971, quoted in Kansai Scene magazine (www.kansaiscene.com) December 2008

Feminism Japanese style quote of the day

alexcase — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:49:10 +0000

“in a county where woman’s liberation and equal rights haven’t made much headway, Pierre Cardin and Calvin Klein are blazing a wide trail” Karin Muller, Japanland pg 10

Yakuza quote of the day

alexcase — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:00:18 +0000

“As Joseph Castellano… put it, ‘What is a Gambino crime family?… Does this Gambino crime family have an office? Does the office have a plaque on the door that says, “Gambino crime family?”‘ In Japan, the answers would be, in reverse order, ‘yes,’ ‘yes,’ and ‘read our rules and creed.’
The Dark Side of Private Ordering, Curtis Milhaupt and Mark West

Japanese constitution quote of the day

alexcase — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:02:16 +0000

“With its ridiculous Constitution, Japan is no more than a concubine” then Agriculture and Forestry Minister Tadao Kuraishi, speaking in 1968