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Quote of the Day › 06:12 AM JST - 14th October
Minoru Yamada, who moved to the Airin district of Osaka in 1973. He once worked as a day laborer and is now chairman of Kamagasaki…
Quote of the Day › 05:30 AM JST - 13th October
Nobuhiko Kuramochi, a stock analyst at Shinko Securities in Tokyo. He says Japan is suddenly feeling a lot more vulnerable to the global turmoil, following…
Quote of the Day › 12:03 AM JST - 12th October
Pop singer, erotic actress, lingerie model and pro-sex activist Aya Sugimoto (Metropolis)
Quote of the Day › 06:21 AM JST - 11th October
Jun Iio, a professor of political science at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. (Bloomberg)
Quote of the Day › 04:26 AM JST - 10th October
Veteran guitar player Char, 53, recalling the birth of Tokyo's rock scene in Hibiya Park, where bands came together for concerts every Saturday and Sunday.…
Quote of the Day › 05:55 AM JST - 8th October
Yoshiaki Hompo, commissioner of the newly launched Japan Tourism Agency (Kyodo)
Quote of the Day › 03:22 AM JST - 6th October
Kazuhiko Kanazashi, a Japan Tourism Agency official (Reuters)
Quote of the Day › 05:10 AM JST - 4th October
Daniel Russel, new director at the U.S. State Department's Office of Japanese Affairs, saying that there are many ways in which Japan can support the…
Quote of the Day › 04:47 AM JST - 3rd October
Rikuo Kanaaki, 62, who represents a citizens' organization in Choshi, referring to the closure of Choshi Municipal Hospital due to a shortage of doctors. (Yomiuri…
Quote of the Day › 03:58 AM JST - 2nd October
Sadako Ogata, 81, who heads the Japan International Cooperation Agency. She says Japan has no leaders far-sighted enough to deal with the country's demographic crisis.…
Quote of the Day › 06:31 AM JST - 1st October
Gunma University Prof. Kuniko Takahashi, referring to the current banana boom. Sales are up 30% across the nation since TV programs and books claimed that…
Quote of the Day › 03:12 AM JST - 30th September
Tomoe Makino, in charge of partner development at YouTube's Japan site, on why Japanese don't like to post photos of themselves on social network sites.…
Quote of the Day › 12:21 AM JST - 29th September
Norihiro Okuda, Japan's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, responding to North Korea's claim that "Japan is the only war criminal state that beautifies the…
Quote of the Day › 06:46 AM JST - 27th September
Tokushi Yamasaki, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research. Times are tough for Japan's brewers as young people lose their taste for lager. (Reuters)
Quote of the Day › 07:53 AM JST - 25th September
DPJ Acting President Naoto Kan (Kyodo)
Quote of the Day › 06:42 AM JST - 24th September
Hiroshi Hirota, in charge of book and magazine procurement at National Azabu supermarket in Tokyo. Yohan's bankruptcy has left stores scrambling to meet customer demand…
Quote of the Day › 04:17 AM JST - 22nd September
David Rudlin, the Tokyo-based director of international markets at De Beers. He says that despite a tendency for Japanese to react disproportionately to economic uncertainty,…
Quote of the Day › 05:38 AM JST - 21st September
Masatsugu Suzuki, a professor at Gifu University, saying that game meat is becoming more popular as food scandals come to light one after the other…
Quote of the Day › 05:00 AM JST - 20th September
Economist Naoki Tanaka, who says the vacuum in Japan's leadership is an inevitable result of Japan's abnormal political environment through to the end of the…
Quote of the Day › 04:59 AM JST - 19th September
Adam Posen, deputy director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He says you can't compare the effect of the current financial upheavals in the…