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Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I got to model for a while, but mainly because any blonde-haired, blue-eyed person can model in Japan.

Adam Trusner

Japan is really the industrialized country most heavily dependent on oil imports, ... so the most direct impact of higher oil prices is on the Japanese yen.

Ashraf Laidi

The market focus is on monetary policy in the US, Japan and Europe.

Masayoshi Yano

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

Chen Shui bian

We've repeatedly said that Microsoft's console won't be truly successful if it's not a hit in Japan. My job is to make that happen.

Takashi Sensui

If U.S. beef shipments to Japan will come from a limited number of facilities, we can easily check their safety. But if not, it would be very difficult to do so.

Yasuhiro Yoshikawa

But Japan must guarantee Australia's safety.

John Curtin

Political pressure on the Bank of Japan will linger.

Kazuhiko Sano

The economy is getting better, so Japan is putting more of its money overseas again.

Satoru Ogasawara

Having got the Japan issue out of the way that's going to be the next issue on people's minds.

Richard Marwood

The Bank of Japan probably won't hold rates at zero for very long after excess reserves are absorbed.

Ryutaro Kono

There's a thought that says Japan had a capacity bubble in the 1980s, we had one in the 1990s and now it's China's turn.

Richard Koss

The Bank of Japan will shift policy as early as April, or by mid-year at the latest.

Akio Makabe

That is causing some portfolio allocation changes because part of the capital flowing out of Europe and Japan into emerging markets is not attracted by risky assets any more.

Ricardo Amorim

We had to hire a private jet from Japan to bring (someone's) dog and a minder for the dog. It is bizarre and it is not the run of the mill thing.

Aaron Simpson

Japan funds are on fire.

Kunal Kapoor

There was a possibility that the negotiations would come to a deadlock if Japan did not pay.

Bunroku Yoshino

We support the change from the old Japan to a new Japan.

Takeo Fukui

I'm glad we won the war, ... otherwise we would be speaking Japan ese or German.

John Rossi

To apply the Western standard of recession is not appropriate in Japan.

Yasushi Okada

We would argue Japan is still attractive even though its PE is high because of the growth rate of the E.

Kathy Matsui

We are going to Japan for a week and a half and then continue to tour all summer and fall.

Steve Soboslai

We expect increased demand in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region for our products and services in the near future.

Gideon Argov

Japan does not understand very well that one of its proudest cultural achievements is in film.

Akira Kurosawa

It's disappointing for the destination because our goal is to get as much direct service as possible. But at the end of the day, (Japan Airlines) is not the only way for foreign travelers to get here.

Terry Jicinsky

There's a little bit more caution coming into the investment outlook mostly because of fears of higher interest rates in the U.S. and Europe and now Japan.

Chris Iggo

Disclosure is much less comprehensive in Japan than it is in the United States, so there are a lot more secrets floating around.

Hugh Patrick

It's a collaboration that goes clear to Japan. It's a new generation of representations of the sky.

Neil Degrasse Tyson

A lot of traders are aware that there will be a big intervention if the yen breaks through (below) 118. Right now the [Bank of Japan] scare is working.

Seijiro Takeshita

If the Olympics are going to be hosted in Japan, it has to be Tokyo, considering the capacity.

Shintaro Ishihara

My husband brought a sword from Japan. His mom had it.

Joyce Everett

We expect CO2 emissions growth in China between now and 2030 will equal the growth of the United States, Canada, all of Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Korea combined.

Fatih Birol

The appetite is huge for these games in Japan. It's expanding the market.

Beth Llewelyn

I'm disappointed that Australia's not taking the lead in this international action against Japan.

Steve Shallhorn

She loved Japan because of the beauty, and she loved Italy because of the charm. She wanted to see everything for herself firsthand. She loved Annapolis, but she wanted to see the world.

Deborah Tibbitt

The US government is committed to working together with the government of Japan to address these concerns.

Thomas Schieffer

He's been around baseball for a lot of years, and was a [baseball] trainer in Japan for six years.

Keith Dugger

I've sold to Japan, China, England, Italy, I think, Switzerland, Scotland.

Judy Williams

China allowed Australia to diversify away from Japan as it hit its slump.

Andrew Leigh

It was as if Japan had fallen victim to a case of collective amnesia.

Peter Goldman

They just have different customs, and we want to be knowledgeable and accept those customs. One of the worst things you can do is be in Japan and demand a fork.

Dan Allen

The quality of the fish is extremely important. I'd prefer to get it directly from Japan, but we don't charge enough for us to be able to do that.

Alice Yip

The feeling itself, it is the same. I don't really add the statistics that I had in Japan and the home runs here.

Hideki Matsui

If you look at what we've done in Japan..., we've built a great asset there.

Jerry Yang

A cool-headed analysis of the negotiation result, in fact, shows that Japan has gained practical benefits.

Chosun Ilbo

Any luxury company is susceptible to a slowdown in the U.S. or Japan. The macro issues are really more important for a luxury company.

Claire Kent

Japan is to blame for the war of aggression.

Tsuneo Watanabe

We have got bids on about 60 percent of items in the sale. They have come from all over the world -- Japan, Brazil, America and Europe.

Ted Owen

They have missiles capable of hitting Japan as well as nuclear weapons that set their sights on Japan.

Seiji Maehara

Japan is back on its feet and growing again.

David Hensley

We're in much better shape to confront the aging challenge than the countries of continental Europe or Japan. But good shape is a relative statement.

Richard Jackson

He provides a lot of interest from Japan. What generally sells -- because we?re a business -- is team and winning.

Brian Cashman

We've had people from Japan, ... from South America. It really is an event.

Mark Moran

Falling demand in Europe and Japan weakened the overall growth even as demand from China remained strong.

Renee Chen

Japan doesn't like what is happening but they realize they are fighting a broad-based dollar decline.

Ian Gunner

By pushing through the policy change, the Bank of Japan risks being blamed by the government if something happens to the economy and things deteriorate.

Hiroaki Muto

It is reminiscent of the Japan-based boom of the 1960s that seemed destined to create unbounded wealth.

David Fox

The funds given by the Government of Japan will help us to save the lives of thousands of children.

Barbara Reynolds

Fast-forward to 2000, and Toyota and Honda are making cars here. China's in the same place on the curve as Japan was.

Bill Stafford

People tend to believe the Bank of Japan governor rather than ministers.

Garry Evans

The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan.

Arun Sarin

The enthusiasm over Japan is extremely high right now.

Tim Mazanec

Asia is the biggest growth market for us, especially China, but also Japan.

Herbert Hainer

Japan can't afford to have an outdated political system. If it was a company, it would have long been bankrupt.

Takafumi Horie

It seems to be working because we sold the series to France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Japan and Korea.

Chris Roland

In Japan when you say diesel engine, everyone thinks of rattling, smelly, dirty engines. Demand is almost nil at this moment.

Tatsuo Yoshida

They have to find other ways to make money in Japan. Private banking was their best business, but they can't do that anymore.

Naoko Nemoto

I'm a big fan of Japan. I think Japan is in reasonably decent shape.

Robert Kessler

Japan probably is the biggest victim of deflation in Asia.

Peter Morgan

Japan tends to focus on small-island developing states with marine-focused economies and marine-focused cultures.

Karen Steuer

In the time to come Japan and India are going to move closer to counter balance the rapidly increasing influence of China in global politics.

Rajeev Sharma

Ask the American players how many weeks in a row they play in Japan.

Seve Ballesteros

We are back out in Japan touring in November so providing everything is going well, we want to come back here.

Nick Atkinson

Right now it's all about the speculation that Japan will end its quantitative easing.

Adarsh Sinha

I hope I will have another good race in Japan.

Narain Karthikeyan

Were in Japan the year before, and he had always had [sic] hoped there would be an earthquake that he could feel, and there wasn't any. And here was the big Long Beach earthquake, and they didn't feel it!

Gutenberg

Companies in Japan still have potential to boost their profits and investors are betting on the strength of the economy.

Soichiro Monji

And we're over here. You should see her in Japan. The media loves her. You can only dream of that kind of attention.

Kate Golden

Japan ought to refer to (the Bank of England's 2% inflation target).

Hidenao Nakagawa

Capital in Japan is not the issue. The issue is deal access -- and that's it. It's a knife-fight out there.

Fred Schmidt

We do not yet see clear evidence that we have got a turning point in Japan, ... We need a little bit more information that the bottom has occurred.

Michael Mussa

We have a saying in Japan - third time comes truth.

Sadaharu Oh

In Japan, for example, the debt deflation started in 1990 and price deflation started in 1992 or 1993. That's what we're in for right now.

Lacy Hunt

I think families learn about Japan in a way they would not learn if they were reading about it.

Lee Nelson

We'll be pleasantly surprised by Japan, we'll be pleasantly surprised by European data, so in a global equity portfolio, stay fully invested.

Geoff Lewis

Until recently Europe and the U.S. have lagged behind Japan in their adoption of C-based ESL design technologies.

Sandeep Ram

Japan always seems to be the land of opportunity.

Jason Rogers

As Japan is the only country that has suffered nuclear attack, it is not acceptable for it to have more nations possessing nuclear arms.

Osamu Miyata

The only thing that will keep us from selling more is limited inventory from Japan.

Sage Marie

The Bank of Japan is fiddling at the edges with existing policy, but this isn't a quantitative easing, ... a fairly significant set of steps.

Russell Jones

The currency markets are much more driven by activity and data coming out of Europe and Japan right now.

David Durrant

We never had any concerns about his fitness levels. One thing they do in Japan is run a lot and train a lot.

David Nucifora

The urgency to appoint a true deflation fighter at the Bank of Japan is not going to disappear with this report.

Jesper Koll

The one that would concern us most of those three is Japan because we know the Japan market is a bit fickle at times.

George Hickton

There's certainly some suspicion [Japan] is trying to get a quick fix.

Arthur Mitchell

They all agreed that they want to remain in Japan and await their children's return.

Shinzo Abe

Today they march against Japan, tomorrow they can march against the central government.

Joseph Cheng

The growing perception is that Japan is falling back into a dark hole of recession again.

Carl B. Weinberg

However, the fact remains that Japan is still committed to G-4.

Yoshinori Katori

It's the proverbial leak in the dike. Does that (Japan trip) make it more likely? Yes.

Neal Pilson

China is now a more important trading partner than Japan.

Irene Cheung

Unlike disappointing earnings in the U.S., those in Japan do not look so bad. But investors are basically taking a wait-and-see attitude.

Nobuki Goto

If Cuba wins, Fidel wins. I hope Japan wins.

Angel Hernandez

It is extremely important to make an effort for the sake of the beautiful future of both China and Japan.

Dai Bingguo

The only way out for Japan is to see the yen weaken.

Andrew Chaveriat

If Japan were hit with fresh cases of suspicious mail, that would put an additional burden on the market.

Masayoshi Okamoto

The Democratic Party of Japan is facing a critical moment right now.

Ichiro Ozawa

An increase in oil imports means more demand out of Japan for the dollar to buy them.

Osamu Takashima

We have elements of information that make us think that countries in this region, especially Japan, could have been targeted.

Al qaeda

We'd like to become one of the global top five banks. To do that, we'll build a first-class retail operation in Japan and then expand internationally.

Nobuo Kuroyanagi

Deflation is very entrenched in Japan.

Paul Chertkow

Japan is a fast adopter of new ideas. If you're hot in Japan, you're hot really fast.

Alex Lee

Investors have started to warm to Japan again as an investment market.

Douglas Eu

This is a ground battle for reform! Let's change Japan!

Yuriko Koike

If things keep going like this, this will be the end of Japan.

Shizuka Kamei

What I conclude from this is that we need another export outlet for our crude oil. I suggest China and Japan would be excellent outlets for some of this crude.

Patricia Mohr

The growth in the industry is going to happen outside of North America, Europe and Japan. The one concern for everyone is the debt they're carrying.

Jim Bright

This is getting so popular now. Japan is way ahead of the world in this.

Stuart Levy

It's a big event in Japan. Everybody is talking about [the Classic] every day.

Shinji Mori

Japan is a great long-term investment, and as each problem is addressed, I think investors will find Japan incrementally more attractive.

Michael Goodson

From the consumer's viewpoint, gaining entry to Japan will open up competition and increase convenience. Why should a passenger from Atlanta be required to make a connection to Chicago or Los Angeles?

Bill Berry

I think it's going to be the earnings, I see that as probably on everybody's minds this morning. I'm probably more concerned with oil at around $67 a barrel than I am about Japan.

Fred Dickson

We believe that the success achieved in assisting U.S.-based Internet companies to enter Japan can be duplicated for the U.K. and other countries.

Masayoshi Son

Even for Toyota, Japan is a very difficult market.

Tatsuo Yoshida

There's been a revolution of ideas and creative thinking in Japan. Enough companies had their backs against the wall that they've been forced to change.

Todd Jacobson

It's an exciting time for Microsoft here in Japan.

Robert Bach

It is too early to worry about inflation in Japan. There is a strong demand for 20-year bonds and it is good to consider buying them.

Soichiro Kimura

It?s worldwide. It?s in Europe, Japan and Africa.

Kay Smith

Trading conditions are worsening which is a negative factor for Japan but exports are healthy as well.

Yuji Shimanaka

He basically accomplished the impossible, painting the DPJ (Democratic Party of Japan) as a party against change and the LDP as the party of reform.

Gerald Curtis

Part of the problem to the ailing economy of Japan is the sloppy hiring practices in the 1980s.

James Fiorillo

It was really good to have a quick break from paddock life after an intense weekend in Japan.

Colin Edwards

They called because they want to report his death in Japan.

Susan Turner

It's not that Japan or Europe have better accounting systems than we do.

Tom Gallagher

We had 106 people do the Double last year, and there were people from 34 states, Japan and Canada.

Matt Kelly

The data from Japan was universally softer than expected. It is conspiring to take the yen lower.

Richard Franulovich

It's crucial to stabilize Japan-China relations as well as those between Japan and South Korea.

Takenori Kanzaki

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Shigeki Maruyama

Hopefully, Japan will meet the commitment it made earlier in the year.

Harold Creel

It was a massive campaign and a crushing blow for Japan which was already in a bad way after fighting for almost four years in the Pacific War.

Nigel Steel

Japan is in a great transition and can't do much.

Takashi Inoguchi

For Xbox, Japan really is a key, important market in the global strategy that we have.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

Japan has come a long way.

William Kennedy

Japanese software will be developed. It will be a breakthrough in Japan.

Robert Bach

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Miriam Beard

Oil damps growth everywhere but the high oil price may well be hurting Asia and Japan a lot more. Oil prices won't be positive for the yen.

Adrian Schmidt

It's very rewarding. The hope was that the things we were seeing take place in the U.S. and Europe would come ashore in Japan, and it's gratifying to finally see it take place.

Todd Jacobson

In Asia, it's always a competition with Japan, it's always a very, very serious game. I'll never forget that game.

Jung Keun Bong

The win in flying and the victory in Japan will give me a lot of confidence in the Olympics.

Roar Ljoekelsoey

This deal will further strengthen Vodafone's position in Japan and give us greater exposure to 3G.

Chris Gent

The government put the US-Japan alliance first, ignoring the most important issue: the lives and health of the people.

Seiji Maehara

The growth is happening here. We are culturally confined by Japan, the US and Europe. Our business is governed by the European and American mindset. You must see all the global options.

Fred Kindle

I did that a lot in Japan. By doing that, I can get some rhythm back and keep my balance.

Shinji Mori

It's unambiguously good news for Japan. It signals the dark days of deflation are behind us.

Glenn Maguire

What's important here is what hasn't happened yet, the EU filing a WTO case against Japan. That's next.

David Pritchard

Most certainly it affected the games in which I was playing. We lost one game to Japan which I don't think we should have.

Markku Uusipaavalniemi

There's a focus in art education. Art is really part of the culture of Japan.

Jan Jensen

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

John C. Danforth

Our board over there now boasts three ambassadors, of Japan, Turkey and the U.S..

Dwight Gee

Japan has the infrastructure for this kind of service, so it would be a shame not to use it.

Masayoshi Son

It is very difficult to be awarded economic compensation against a Japanese company in Japan, so war victims are suing from inside China.

Tong Zeng

If we do not proceed in the reform, Japan has no future.

Takenori Kanzaki

I want to visit my parents graves and see the cherry tree blossom in Japan again.

Ishinosuke Uwano

In addition to the tournament, we hope to get a coach from Japan, who will be in the team as a technical adviser ahead of the world event in Japan.

Jacob Owiti

India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

Yoshiro Mori

There is no change in our original plan to release the console in spring 2006 in Japan.

Kei Sakaguchi

The Bank of Japan is going to be on hold while the Fed and the ECB are proactively raising rates. The yen is the hardest currency to buy.

John Cholakis

That's the number I wore in Japan, so I'm wearing it now.

Tony Batista

If the U.S. continues to correct over the next few days it could be nasty for Japan, but the market fundamentals are much better here.

Garry Evans

In Japan, the novelty effect [of new models] is stronger than anywhere.

Hans Tempel

The European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are in the beginning stages of tightening, whereas the Fed is basically done.

Mark Kiesel

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

Craig Thomas

Whenever we have a game against Japan, we have the strong will to beat Team Japan.

Jae Seo

Markets across Asia appear to be watching what will happen with the Bank of Japan.

Toru Otsuka

Anti-Japan War Online is a patriotic online game that is both interesting and instructive, and can attract and guide young players. We will pay close attention to the authenticity of historical facts in the game.

Chen Xiao

They signed every left-handed hitter from Japan to Latin America - literally.

Jacob Cruz

Japan Inc. is getting stronger, and their profitability continues to improve very nicely.

Jesper Koll

We had every right, and we were more than right ... just and moral to smash (Germany and Japan).

Pat Buchanan

We are in the midst of trying to fit Australia into the schedule after we go to Japan in January.

Howie Dorough

In Japan, he is God. -on Keanu Reeves.

Jada Pinkett Smith

But Japan may need to have nuclear weapons as insurance.

Yoshiaki Onoue

We're very excited to be partnering with these two great companies in Japan. Our work together could have a significant impact on the way health care is delivered.

Rod Hise

There are a couple of Japan teams out there that are really looking good, ... I love sushi.

Carl Pavano

Arnold Schwarzenegger became so famous in Japan for that ad. Nobody in Japan could have done that.

Tomoko Kamiguchi

Japan has been a drag on all the other markets.

Jeff Weir

Japan has not made clear what amount it can provide since there has not been any guarantee from the government.

Ernovian G. Ismy

This says that things in Japan are on pretty solid ground.

Eric Darwell

People come here from all over, and from as far away as Argentina, Poland, the Czech Republic and Japan.

Elian Gonzalez

So there's a different group of people managing the Japan relationship.

Edward Lincoln

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

Edward Rowland Sill

Japan should conduct self-reflection for its history of aggression and truly learn how to co-exist with Asian countries.

Zhuo Nansheng

That's why Bandai is turning to Korea as a learning center to bring these things over to Japan.

Zachary Liggett