The Tale of Genji in particular is the highest pinnacle of Japanese literature. Even down to our day there has not been a piece of fiction to compare with it. That such a modern work should have been written in the eleventh century is a miracle, and as a miracle the work is widely known abroad.

[http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/fukuzawe.pdf Article about Fukuzawa Yukichi from UNESCO publication]

[http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/185.html?c=10 Fukuzawa, Yukichi in Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures at the National Diet Library]

Takashi Shimura — Dr. Kensuke Sonoda

Takamaru Sasaki — Seki, Prime Minister of Japan

Seizaburô Kawazu - Seibei

Ken Uehara — Dr. Kawano

[https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000196/files/975_15935.html Japanese original text] of Hōjōki on Aozora Bunko

Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.

[http://artofwar.thetao.info/japan/gorinsho.htm Complete text (in Japanese)]

[The Japanese auto industry should] catch up with America in three years. Otherwise the Japanese auto industry will never stand on its own.

[The Japanese auto industry should] catch up with America in three years. Otherwise the Japanese auto industry will never stand on its own.

[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Hiratsuka+Raichō&btnG= Hiratsuka Raichō] at

[https://www.naomiosaka.com/ Official website] in (English and Japanese)

I would like to do for you now, a Japanese science fiction movie: "Attack of the Killer Vibrators."

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070309142929/http://www.shinfujin.gr.jp/eng/1_what/index.html New Japan Women's Association]