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"In the morning, I decided to retrace my steps, go back to the beginning, return to the same city to the same hotel in Japantown steps away from the same Peace Tower."

"ICU Peace Tower, Japantown"

"Nolan Bushnell: We didn’t realize that Japan was a closed market and so we were in violation of all kinds of rules and regulations of the Japanese, and they were starting to give us a real bad time."

"Tony Fadell: Japan was it for electronics in the early nineties. Even Apple could not make small stuff back then. And Mitsubishi Electric was a partner of General Magic’s."

"All the interesting work was either in Finland or in Japan or in Canada."

"For one thing, the otter came from Japan. Someone named Morikawa—he’s in electronics in Tokyo."

"And we were sending 200 American students a year to Japan."

"You know he's gone to Japan more than once. He always comes back. It never works out for him. Japan is like a woman that he can't live with, and can't live without, you know?"

"“Yes. In Japan, if you screw up, the best thing is to go to the authorities and make a big show of how sorry you are, and how bad you feel, and how you will never do it again. It's pro forma, but the authorities will be impressed by how you've learned your lesson. That's sumimasen: apology without end. It's the Japanese version of throwing yourself on the mercy of the court. It's understood to be the best way to get leniency.”"

"He's not worried about legalities. He's worried about scandal. Because that's what would happen if we were in Japan."

"So I tried to sell them to Sony, in Japan."

"American companies were successful around the world, except in Japan."

"Bob Richmond was the assistant trade negotiator for Japan under Amanda Marden until last year."

"Willy stuck his head in the window. "Do you think that Captain Connor's Japan-bashing represents another example of the department's lack of judgment in racially sensitive cases?"

"You realize Japan is deeply into the structure of American universities, particularly in technical departments."

"“America is made stronger by the influx of foreign money. America has much to learn from Japan.”"

"But we can't ignore the reality of targeted, adversarial trade as practiced by Japan — where business and government make a planned attack on some segment of the American economy."

"But all I hear now is a lot of Japan-bashing. Fuck. You can't win."

"Senator Dowling said that Morton had "become a bit of a fanatic about Japan lately, perhaps an indication of the strain he was under."

"He was destined to spend the rest of his life in Japan in a madogiwazoku. A window seat. Somebody who's bypassed by corporate decisions, and stares out the window all day."

"You never told me why you left Japan."

"Proponents regard abortion on demand as a highly effective form of birth control and point to its success in Japan, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere."

"And the Japanese love zoos—there are fifty zoos in Japan, and more being built."

"He flew all over the world, consulting with zoos in Europe, India, and Japan on the care of exotic birds."

"Last I heard, they were going to Vancouver, and on to Japan."

"Industrialized countries now include India and Korea and Japan, of course."

"But countries like Japan do much better than we do."

"Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Japan were getting more than 30% from this source."

"BOOK THIRD. JAPAN, THE ARCHIPELAGO, SOUTHERN INDIA, AND THE COASTS AND ISLANDS OF THE INDIAN SEA"

"In the camphor qualities table, Japan is listed with a price of 30 dollars per picul."

"…Mendoza heard of the like in the vicinity of Japan..."

"Chipangu (Japan), ii. 253, 256n; account of Kúblái’s expedition v., 255, 258; its disasters, 255–256; history of expedition, 260n seqq.; relations with China and Korea, 262n"

"Next a paper parasol that opened up to a view of Fujiyama. “Japan,” Oliver said. “Don’t open it inside—bad luck.”"

"They have been in strange countries–Japan, Mexico, South America, and those queer islands which it is so hard to remember geographically."

"“I want us to buy this laguna and this promontory and build a house that looks right straight out at Japan.”"

"discuss his coming trip to Japan."

"…and became an Oriental scholar and discovered the greatest Dharma Bums of them all, the Zen Lunatics of China and Japan."

"And then I'm going to Japan and walk all over that hilly country finding ancient little temples hidden and forgotten in the mountains and old Sages a hundred and nine years old praying to Kwannon in huts and meditating so much that when they come out of meditation they laugh at everything that moves."

"I'm going to teach this prayer to the monks I meet in Japan."

"Plans were being made for Japhy's big farewell party a few days before his boat sailed for Japan. He was scheduled to leave on a Japanese freighter."

"That leaves us dear old Japhy here who's going away to Japan, and our wailing friend Goldbook and our Mr. Coughlin, who has a sharp tongue."

"Japhy and Psyche presumably made love in the cabin and then she began to cry and insist she wanted to go to Japan too and the captain ordered everybody off but she wouldn't get off."

"Where’s Abe now? I said. Japan. Not that he’s any happier there than he was here."

"Indochina did fall to communism, but look what we saved: Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, and Japan. These countries are our bulwark against the communist tide. Let us not forget your Philippines, said Dr. Hedd. Or Indonesia. Absolutely."

"if the Japanese hadn’t taught us the superiority of the yellow race,"

"“There’s a new Nissan coming out called The Cube,” Conan said. “You can only get it in Japan. But who wants a square car?”"

"The property he sublet belonged to an eccentric old painter who was away in Japan."

"I said, "Which company in Japan?" "Yes. It is clearly a corporation belonging to a different keiretsu," Connor said."

"“It's by far the most advanced in the world. The Japanese are becoming much better in software. Soon they will surpass the Americans in that, as they already have in computers.”"

"…according to some writers the same practice was common in Japan, where the friends and vassals who were under the vow committed hara kiri at the death of their patron."

"NÁFÚN. Regarding the similitude between Nipon and Nafún, Ferrand, Textes, I., p. 115 n., remarks: “Ce rapprochement n’a aucune chance d’être exact. نافون Nafūn est certainement une erreur de graphie pour ياقوت Yākūt ou ناقوس Nāḳūs.”"

"Aw you can't give me something like this, these things come from Japan don't they?"

"He'd stay there until May 15, his sailing date for Japan, where he had been invited by an American foundation to stay in a monastery and study under a Master."

"now though he was seven thousand miles away in Japan answering the meditation bell"

"“My parents?” “Yeah.” “In Japan, I think.” “What are they doing there?” “Shopping.”"

"she walks over to me and talks about Japan and Aspen and then about a strange dream she had the other night where Daniel was kidnapped."

"Book III.  Japan, the Archipelago, Southern India, and the Coasts and Islands of the Indian Sea"