Quotes about Japan-US Relations, Japan-U.S. Relations

Douglas MacArthur

The Japanese will not be opposed to America keeping Okinawa because the Okinowans are not Japanese.

The Japanese have always been very race conscious seeing themselves as the racial pinnacle of Asian peoples and others as inferior. The peoples of Okinawa were not the racially pure Japanese and MacArthur turned out to be right that protection of Okinawan rights, prerogatives, and dignity was much less important than for ethnic Japanese. It would not be until the last decade of the 20th century that Japanese public opinion was seriously concerned about the Okinawans. Even then, Japan’s independence and dignity as a sovereign nation appeared more important than the rights and dignity of the native Okinawans.

Saionji Kimmochi

Japan had become a general object of distrust and misunderstanding; a fact not only deeply injurious to Japan, but very unfortunate for foreign nations, whose policy in the Far East is influenced thereby. It was the duty of the nation to inspire a spirit of confidence and good-will among its friends abroad

He had just returned from a trip abroad.

Ed Royce

The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

Hideki Tojo

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.

Ben Rhodes

Japan hosts more forward-deployed U.S. troops than any other country and serves as home port for our only forward-deployed aircraft carrier. In 2011, when a tsunami devastated Japan and created the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear facility, the United States stood shoulder-to-shoulder with our Japanese allies to respond and rebuild.

Walter F. Mondale

[Commenting on Japan:] Our destinies have become inseparable .... Our future together will have much to do with the future of the world.

Howard Baker

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

Yoshihide Suga

I think it's necessary to develop policies and protect national interests based on Japan-U.S. relations.

Gerald Vizenor

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

Michael Crichton

Unfortunately, our postwar policy has been to ask Japan to change so that our economic policies will dovetail. I think that is completely wrong. The solution is for America to change.

Martha Smith

In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.

Lee Myung-bak

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Yusuke Tsurumi

Cynics may say that Japan has been forced by the United States and England to give up her plan for dominating China, in the interest of a wider distribution of the spoils.

The United States and England maintained officially that their stance was moral and ethical. And it was for most Americans and Britons. However, there were some, whose motivation was economically self-serving as this quotation suggests. The less control Japan had over China, the more other countries could freely trade with China.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

I'm not the ambassador of Japan or Japanese culture.

Yoshihide Suga

Japan's own efforts to defend its own country are also effective in defense cooperation with the United States.

Shuji Nakamura

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

Japan-US Relations, Japan-U.S. Relations Quotes