Tokyo Quotations

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

It turns out that a Nobel is also followed by other recognitions, and perhaps the most unexpected of these is that the Japan Karate Association in Tokyo has now made me an honorary 7th-degree black belt, something that, given my athletic abilities, is even more unimaginable than being an Economic Sciences Laureate.

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.

Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.

With New York doing what it is doing and technology stocks strong, people in Tokyo have got slightly more interested in the stock market.

With Tokyo down and the Dow futures down there was plenty of reason to sell.

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.

We're hearing it may be 6 p.m. Tokyo before an announcement comes out, and that's making people think it's a story to react to tomorrow. The timing of it is important because we're hearing lots of rumors.

This promotion is a reflection of the outstanding job Gregg has done managing an international sales force of almost one hundred people. He has played the lead role in opening Business Wire offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt and Tokyo and extending the Business Wire brand internationally.

When I left, I got on the bus to go to Tokyo with Chris Chelios and Gary Suter and some of the guys, we were kind of sour because of what we heard had happened. I want to go and make it better and rebuild a great thing, which is USA hockey.

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over the next five days, the attention never waned.

I have been training hard since the beginning of the spring because I wanted to show a lot of ability in short time. Although I don't have a lot of experience batting here, I have a good feeling toward Tokyo Dome.

I bought a 1964 Bentley for $1,600 and re-built it over five years. When I drove it in Tokyo after that, it was the pride of the road. That car would command at least $150,000 today because 'Bikram' has restored it.

Bartok is not an easy repertoire. But Bartok with the Tokyo String Quartet would be the best way that you could hear it.

I'm also serving as a commissioner on the Japan-U.S. Commission, appointed by President Clinton, which will be taking me to Tokyo in June.

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

I fell ill during the trip from Tokyo to Paris,

Gains on Wall Street overnight and in Tokyo this morning helped the market recover.

Gains on Wall Street and Tokyo provided support to the local market. Properties led (the gains) as many developers will launch new projects for sale.

Funds are putting more money into oil because of rising geopolitical risk about Iran. Gains in Tokyo reflect records abroad.

We're in the midst of putting together a strategic partnership on the retail side. And for office, we're looking at sub markets of Tokyo and other cities with good demographics.

H shares held well yesterday even if there was panic selling in Tokyo and other Asian markets yesterday.

Greenspan's cut was a wonderful thing. It has instilled Tokyo investors with a greater confidence the U.S. economy and markets will recover.

Key U.S. monthly jobs data, due later in the day, a three-day weekend and concerns that the Tokyo market has gone too far too fast are expected to encourage investors to take profits.

It is imperative to get operations at the Tokyo Stock Exchange back to normal as soon as possible for the sake of the Japanese economy.

I think the relative presence of the Tokyo Game Show has been falling so I should do something about it.

Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing nationalist. Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes.

Large-cap, low-priced issues are under the spotlight now that long-term bond yields are falling. That made Tokyo Gas's annual yield of 1.3 percent and Tokyo Electric's 2.0 percent yield look relatively attractive,

Our Business Research Group survey of 55,000 corporate travelers around the world addressed many more issues, such as call-barring, data services and silent periods, and the interesting question for long-haul flights as to what determines a 'night' period, ... It might be easy on north-south routes, such as Europe to South Africa, but much more difficult on Asia-Europe flights. It may be an 1100 departure from Tokyo to Frankfurt, but we all know the cabin blinds are down and lights out within two to three hours of departure, thereby constituting an artificial 'night' period.

Piano's really my instrument ,and that's what they'll see when I get to Tokyo this time. They never saw me play the piano.

Some of the plays on central Tokyo were starting to look quite expensive, and we diversified as a way of trying to pick up some Nagoya and Osaka exposure.

The 27-week inflow streak into Japan equity funds ended this week as accounting irregularities at an Internet company and a systems failure on the Tokyo Stock Exchange shook investor confidence.

The announcement of American Airlines to start Dallas, Fort Worth, is strategically important for Jamaica and is a very important opportunity for our Midwest market, and western U.S., as well as western Canada. Our Japanese market will also benefit significantly because the American Airlines flight will allow for same day one-stop service from Narita Tokyo in Japan to MoBay.

Tokyo - still - offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets.

Tokyo shares followed the Nasdaq today. Also, trading was supported by those buyers who came back to the market now that Y2K-related concerns seem to have cleared.

Tokyo is so hectic, but inside the hotel it's very silent. And the design of it is interesting. It's weird to have this New York bar... the jazz singer... the French restaurant, all in Tokyo. It's this weird combination of different cultures.

Tokyo Electron's earnings revision gave the opportunity for investors who were waiting to buy technology shares. Investors are turning positive toward technology companies.

We want to complete the greater Tokyo area's aviation setup. This will help us move toward that goal and provide economic benefits,

What we saw in Tokyo today shows that a small consolidation in the dollar is likely because of this technical resistance.

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

This will make Japan the laughingstock of the world. Mizuho and the Tokyo Stock Exchange have shown how weak their compliance and trading systems are.

Films that are made in Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo and Bangkok tend to feed off each other and multiply the potential of Asian cinema.

The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. shares. It has nothing to do with economic fundamentals in Japan, which have not worsened at all.

Cost and time are the two critical factors in this market and a Spartan-enabled development solution that gives designers access to all the required functionality for a wide range of display products will provide significant benefits in both areas. By combining the application expertise of our partner Tokyo Electron Device with the programmability and capabilities of our Spartan-3E family, developers can keep pace with the dynamic requirements of the display market.

Cost and time are the two critical factors in this market and a Spartan- enabled development solution that gives designers access to all the required functionality for a wide range of display products will provide significant benefits in both areas. By combining the application expertise of our partner Tokyo Electron Device with the programmability and capabilities of our Spartan-3E family, developers can keep pace with the dynamic requirements of the display market.

An investor in Tokyo will be able to come onto the screen and buy a European company with instant liquidity.

The results confirmed that there is a better operating environment. There is not a lot of available space in Tokyo now in prime-grade office buildings. We expect to see quite decent rental growth from this point.

The reshaping of education through e-learning leads me to observe that international course-taking is on the horizon, ... Imagine students at UCLA taking courses at Oxford, and students in Tokyo learning physics from a professor at Duke.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange should recognize that an exchange that is not capable of trading, may not be worth keeping in existence.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange should be grateful that they aren't listed yet,

The Tokyo Stock Exchange must be an open market with credibility for the world that stock prices are fair and investors are safe.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange is currently implementing various reforms at a feverish pitch.

The Tokyo market has risen too far too fast, so it's reasonable to take a breather. A set-back in overseas markets gave a cue for the selling.

The Tokyo market always takes a fall in the Nasdaq to heart.

The Tokyo exchange's system is too vulnerable for the world's second biggest bourse.

The whole team is going to Tokyo and I'm stuck flying an economy domestic flight. Seriously, I'm pretty sad.

Seems like Tokyo stocks hit the short-term bottom on Monday. Now investors are comfortable about buying and giving a positive reaction to good corporate earnings.

They said, 'Why don't you make a hit record?' I said, 'It's not a big deal.' Because jazz musicians, there was a syndrome there. And the first record I had out was (Lesley Gore's) 'It's My Party.' I was trying to get her to change her name and I had to go to Tokyo for three weeks. I said, 'We'll fix it when I get back.' So, as soon as I got back it was No. 1. We did it, man. We had 19 hits in four years. Unbelievable.

The yen's weakness against the dollar in Tokyo has been inherited from overseas trade on interest rate differentials.

You can think of a lot of ways that would be wholly inappropriate, since they play in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and London and Tokyo and so on. I didn't want to ask them to wear boots onstage.

There was profit-taking in select blue chips and China-related stocks after recent sharp rises. Investors turned cautious as US and Tokyo markets were weak.

It's a fascinating project. It's fascinating because it will broaden people's understanding about the historical context of Little Tokyo and the migration southward of Central Avenue and of African Americans.

It's hard to predict a support level with downward momentum so strong, but it could be as low as 16,000 for the mid-term. At this point, I'm not quite sure if a rebound on the Nasdaq could help Tokyo stocks recover.

It's quite shocking. We don't really know how investors are going to react. We have to see how fast the Tokyo Stock Exchange can upgrade its system.

Economic activities nowadays greatly depend on information systems and ensuring their credibility is an important task, as recent glitches at the Tokyo Stock Exchange proved.

I want to have more of a modest scale, not fancy, business trade show in central Tokyo for maybe two or three days.

Again, it was the same right fielder who made that catch at Tokyo Dome. It changed a situation from one where we could have scored to one in which we did not. It has been indicative of the way momentum has flowed in this tournament.

That means Tokyo Star is seen as an average regional bank and that's why the shares fell below the offer price.

The familiar combination of declining fundamentals and the market's perception that Tokyo wants to see a weaker yen was the catalyst for the Japanese currency's latest move down,

I'm not looking for any excuses, she was just too good today. I'm going home with my head up. This is a good start to my comeback. I don't think I played badly today, she was just too good. Being in the finals here in Tokyo really exceeded my expectations.

I hope the parties concerned will put in the effort. For this time, the presence of all the chief delegates of the six-party talks in Tokyo signifies that all parties are willing to put in an effort for this cause.

In 1986, when I was 21, I lived in Tokyo for four months, boarding with a Japanese family and working for an American company.

I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.

Investors are realizing they oversold last week. Tokyo stocks are still very much at the mercy of the U.S. market, but there's now hope technology stocks in both markets have hit bottom.

Investing in Japan was an easy decision. It not only broadens our major account sales coverage, but also allows us to provide local customer support to a growing user base. It is strategically important for Carbon to have close ties with many Japanese electronic design firms to drive our product development. Our seasoned team in Tokyo will keep our momentum going while tailoring our offering for the Japanese market.

Investors who were fearful of a further downturn in Tokyo stocks a while ago are now jumping onto the buying bandwagon.

If you think Hong Kong's expensive today, wait 'til you see it five years from now. We'll call Tokyo Macy's bargain basement. It is going to be an extremely expensive city. The pressure's going to be on companies always to define what value-added role does Hong Kong have.

I put on over 11kg in two months eating Western-style food and American-sized portions, and I couldn't shake it off. Then, when I moved back to my mother's Tokyo kitchen, the weight quickly melted away.

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.

Hong Kong took a lead from Wall Street, Tokyo and other overseas markets, and this explains gains this morning.

Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.

I arrived from Tokyo on Monday evening and I'm glad I got to play in the morning today, because I really want to go to bed now, the time difference is really starting to hit me.

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

The uncertainty over U.S. corporate earnings is casting a shadow over global financial markets, and the Tokyo market cannot be an exception.

The troops, they're my heroes. You don't need me out there like some Tokyo Rose. I wouldn't go on a tear on Bush out there, because it'd be distracting.

The exchange failed to deal with systems problems twice because of excessive red tape. Tokyo is falling behind other markets in Asia.

The market was helped by the increase in the Tokyo market.

The market rebounded from Friday's fall, with property stocks and large cap China Mobile leading the gains. Tokyo market's rally this morning boosted market sentiment.

The Italian-based horse is worth somewhere around $10 million after winning six of seven major races and finishing second in the seventh. If he is going to win in Tokyo and perform like this next year, his value could reach an estimated $30 million.

The latest data showing that land prices in Tokyo rose for the first time in 15 years has renewed confidence about Japan getting out of a soft patch. There are structural changes to draw in more money.

I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.

Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back.

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.