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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.
Jan Chipchase /
Buying
Engaging
Everyday
Goods
Identity
Infrastructure
Integrated
Offers
Personal Identity
Tickets
Tokyo
Actions
Paying
Verifying
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I have been to Tokyo and several other cities, but I have never been to Yamaguchi Prefecture. I wonder what it is like, what interesting things it has to offer. I am sure that Prime Minister [ Shinzō] Abe will tell me all about it.
Vladimir Putin / President Of Russia
Cities
Interesting
Tokyo
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Japan has good reasons for wanting to transform its relationship with Russia. Tokyo has openly expressed serious fears of a military confrontation with Beijing over China's claims to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.
Fiona Hill /
Beijing
Claims
Confrontation
Japan
Russia
Sea
Tokyo
Expressed
Fears
Openly
Transform
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If you go to Japan, you have to take the train and go visit different capital cities. Just sticking to one city would be a shame, considering how easy it is to get around. Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto all have different vibes and sights.
Ronny Chieng /
Considering
Japan
Tokyo
Vibes
Sights
Sticking
Visit
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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?
Robert Mcnamara / Former United States Secretary Of Defense
Burned
Civilians
Immoral
Tokyo
Death Men Women
Death Women Men
Japanese
Recognized
Women And Children
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Tokyo & Kyoto are two of my favorites. I like how Japanese cities live in harmony with their natural surroundings, with gardens and forests mixed into urban areas. The public transit is also fantastic and there are cat cafes everywhere.
Baiju Bhatt /
Cat
Forests
Harmony
Surroundings
Tokyo
Urban
Urban Areas
Favorites
Gardens
Japanese
Mixed
Transit
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In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.
Stanley Hauerwas / Theologian
War
Achieve
Bombing
British
Carpet
Germany
Holy
Holy Land
Land
Mean
Tokyo
World War Ii
War World Back
Crusade
World War
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I am from the countryside, very rural countryside, and I moved to Tokyo when I was 18 and have been living first-ever since. So yes, I am a city guy, but sometimes I sort of feel there's another me in a parallel world, still in the countryside.
Makoto Shinkai / Animator
Countryside
Tokyo
World Me City
Parallel
Rural
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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.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. / Critic
Customs
Enormous
Japan
Paparazzi
Tokyo
Waiting
Wine
Critic
Trip
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I own one movie by fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman, because I have to. You can't be a movie critic with a collection of six or seven hundred DVDs that includes everything from 'Tokyo Story' to 'Poison Ivy: The New Seduction' and not have a Bergman movie.
Steve Erickson / Novelist
Bergman
Ivy
Poison
Seduction
Tokyo
Critic
Fellow
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The Bullet Club keeps New Japan Pro Wrestling in the black. Far in the black. Because of me. I'm a part-timer in that company, and I hold the Tokyo Dome merchandising record and Osaka's. Funkos. Bucks on a career run. This Bullet Club may never be topped.
Cody Rhodes / Professional Wrestler
Black
Bucks
Japan
Merchandising
Tokyo
Wrestling
Bullet
Career
Run
Club
Dome
Far
Hold
Black Me New
Record
Pro
Topped
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'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there's the Terminator.
Daniel H. Wilson / Author
Streets
Tales
Tokyo
Creature
Crashed
Frankenstein
Giant
Monster
Radioactive
Terminator
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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.
Ian Watson /
Patterns
Science Fiction
Tokyo
Cultural
Futures
Japanese
Presents
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Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.
Apolo Ohno / Short Track Speed Skater
Appreciation
Experience
Smile
Travel
Cities
Culture
Efficiency
Electronics
Japan
Japanese Culture
Sacred
Thrive
Tokyo
Actually
Almost
Aspects
City
Old
Importantly
Outside
Truly
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My husband and I met on OKCupid. We went out on our little coffee date, and I knew right away he was my husband. He's a handsome, smarty-pants architect from Tokyo. On our first date, I said, 'I wake up like this. I'm Pollyanna Sunshine, and I'm not for everyone'.
Geneva Carr /
Architect
Coffee
Handsome
Husband
Pollyanna
Sunshine
Tokyo
Wake Up
Date
Right Away
Wake
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Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depicted in John David Morley's recent 'Pictures from the Water Trade.'
Darryl Pinckney / Novelist
Tokyo
David
Blurred
Depicted
Distant
Unlike
Recent
Ward
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Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.
Tavi Gevinson / Writer
Travel
Desire
Huge
Tokyo
Interviewing
John
Magazine
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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.
Chiang Kai-Shek / Former President Of The Republic Of China
Action
America
Bombing
Discharge
Dutch
Harbour
Important
Indication
Midway
Pacific
Sea
Sufficient
Tokyo
Been
Seen
Coral
Engagements
Island
Off
Her
Recent
Supremely
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I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.'
Quentin Tarantino / Film Director
God
Movie
Godzilla
Humanity
Monsters
Saving
Tokyo
Wanted
Living
Time God Always
Always
Again
Battling
Become
He
Idea
Would
Other
Role
Rule
Where
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During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.
Barton Gellman / Journalist
Cult
March
Packages
Spread
Subway
Tokyo
Central
Japanese
Trains
Placed
Pulled
Rush
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It's marvelous when you visit Tokyo: they have these clubs, and they'll have 'Motown Night' or 'The Beatles - Totally Authentic and Live!' You know it's shrunk, but at least there's some sort of youthful figure to it. Whereas, the blues scene in Europe is more like, 'Here we go again.'
Robert Palmer / Singer-Songwriter
Clubs
Marvelous
Motown
Tokyo
Authentic
Blues
Shrunk
Visit
Whereas
Youthful
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
Haruki Murakami / Writer
Running
Air
Decided
Filthy
Healthy
Jazz
Late
Making A Living
Mean
Tokyo
Writing
Absolutely
Writer
Bar
Became
Center
Healthy Way
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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.
Arthur Golden / Writer
Famous
Fascinated
Father
Geisha
Graduate School
Mother
School
Secret
Tokyo
Young Man
Afterwards
Discussed
Graduate
Japanese
Whose
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I didn't realize how much the paint was going to affect how I moved and how I walked. And it wasn't something that consciously happened. It was because the first time I'd done it was a Tokyo Dome show, I want to say in 2013-14, and I walked out there, and I was a completely different person.
Finn Balor /
Paint
Tokyo
Affect
Dome
Time First Time Done
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I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.
Susumu Tonegawa / Scientist
Graduation
Chemistry
Department
Examination
High School
Japan
Prestigious
School Years
Tokyo
University
Capital
Chose
Developed
Entrance
Uncle
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My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.
Takashi Murakami / Contemporary Artist
Downtown
Japan
Low Income
Tokyo
Afford
Island
River
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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.
Chad Smith / Musician
Baseball
Fun
Indiana
Play
Tokyo
Your Energy People
Baked
Basement
Somewhere
Club
Fits
Potato
Stadium
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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.
Maya Angelou / Author
Alone
Information
Library
Lost
Mississippi
Tokyo
Somebody
Everyone Else
Helps
Wept
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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.
Martin Jacques / Journalist
Abe
Contrast
Example
Guilty
Japan
Populist
Rooted
Tokyo
Trials
Validity
Wartime
Crimes
For Example
Unlike
Nationalist
Questioned
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I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.
Junot Diaz / Writer
Diet
Anime
Crippled
Decades
Falling In Love
Japan
Retrospect
Samurai
Steady
Surprising
Tokyo
Ascendant
Bubble
Burst
Fed
Grown
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I had thought that Tokyo would be like New York City, but it wasn't. I'd imagined that they'd be similar in their bustle and noise level, but, in fact, Tokyo is a very calm metropolis. The bright lights and hectic night-life images so often found in advertisements and Western media do not reflect every day Japan.
Min Jin Lee / Writer
Bright Lights
Bustle
Calm
Hectic
Japan
Metropolis
New York City
Noise
Tokyo
Advertisement
Bright
Images
Lights
Reflect
Similar
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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.
Alvin E. Roth /
Ability
Association
Black
Economic
Given
Honorary
Japan
Nobel
Tokyo
Turns
Unexpected
Unimaginable
Belt
Followed
Laureate
Perhaps
Sciences
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I've lived in a lot of places - London, Germany, Tokyo, Scotland, Ireland, Los Angeles, and New York. The fashion capitals I've lived in - Tokyo, London, and New York - have this stamp of coolness about them. But I've noticed that in big cities in general, people are just less afraid to be themselves when it comes to fashion.
Sonoya Mizuno /
Big Cities
Coolness
Germany
Ireland
Scotland
Tokyo
Noticed
Stamp
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I was living in Paris for, like, a year and a half, and I couldn't speak French, so it was just hard to get a baguette or a pastry or whatever. All the stores close at 6 o'clock, and they're not very into hospitality, so it's not a convenient city. It's so pretty, though, but I was raised in Tokyo, so it was hard to understand.
Tao Okamoto / Model
Convenient
Hospitality
Tokyo
Pastry
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I was actually going to work at Tokyo Disney. I thought, 'I'll work in the family!' That was my postgraduate plan. I didn't really have any plans lined up, but I was going to audition for this big band jazz show that was at Tokyo Disney. I think the concert was, like, for a year or something, and I thought, 'Yeah, that's what I'll do!'
Sasheer Zamata / Actress
Plans
Tokyo
Audition
Big Band
Concert
Disney
Lined
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I lived in Tokyo for four months. I've heard Tokyo was modeled after New York City, so I was ready for the subways and all the people, but it's a little overwhelming at times. Not to mention, I'm paying twice as much for my apartment here than I was paying in L.A., and my apartment in L.A. is about four times the size! But it's such a cool city.
Dylan Bruce /
New York
Cool
Heard
Months
New York City
Overwhelming
Ready
Size
Tokyo
Little
City People New
Twice
Much
After
City
Cool People New
Times
Mention
Modeled
Paying
York
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