Charles C. Mann Quotes

If I were to return to Japan, Nippon Ham would be my top choice. No doubt about that.

I don't know how to drive.

I love Japan; it's very special.

I had never driven in England on the left side of the road. I had never driven an automatic car.

There ain't nothing that we need to be worried about. We just need to be in the right lane where everybody else be in the left lane.

One of the things that slaps you in the face when you arrive in Japan is their obsession with everything cute.

The dojo system in Japan is something very unique. It prepared me not only for wrestling in the States and around the world, but it also prepared me for how to handle myself as an adult in the real world.

There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.

When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back.

It looks like they've been watching old Japan tapes!

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.

The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.

The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to.

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to Japan, a semi-feudal society.

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.

I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"

According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.

Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan.

There are also other areas. For example, culture. This is extremely important. We keep revisiting sport, judo, because I practice it, but other than that, there is also culture. Every year events that are in some way or other related to Russia take place in Japan.

Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?