Naoto Quotes

#1. While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

Naoto Kan

#2. Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

John C. Maxwell

#3. I certainly very much enjoy acting, but I am open to anything really. I think it's important when you have those moments in life when you are not attached to something, and you are not quite sure what the next phase of your journey is going to look like, that you don't pigeon-hole yourself.

James Scott

#4. This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.

Naoto Kan

#5. Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

Naoto Kan

#6. I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.

Naoto Fukasawa

#7. The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

Naoto Fukasawa

#8. Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

Naoto Fukasawa

#9. I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.

Naoto Kan

#10. I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.

Naoto Kan

#11. When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

Naoto Kan

#12. I am advocating a weak yen to a certain extent.

Naoto Kan

#13. I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

Naoto Kan

#14. Design is expected to provide something "new" or "beautiful" or "special". When we look at the things around us with such a mindset, those things outside "design" are viewed as being "normal" or "ugly" in contrast.

Naoto Fukasawa

#15. The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.

Naoto Kan

#16. I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.

Alan Greenspan

#17. China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.

Naoto Kan

#18. We designers have been working to stimulate people's souls and minds.

Naoto Fukasawa

#19. In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.

Naoto Kan

#20. The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

Naoto Kan

#21. So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

Naoto Kan

#22. After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

Naoto Kan

#23. If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

Naoto Kan

#24. People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.

Naoto Fukasawa

#25. In fact, the Senkaku Islands are ... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

Naoto Kan

#26. If you believe you are beyond harm, will you go inside? Will you enter this palace so prominent in blood and glory, follow your face through the web-spanned dark, toward the exquisite chiming of the clavier? The alarms cannot see us. The wet policeman lurking in the doorway cannot see us. Come ...

Thomas Harris

#27. The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

Naoto Kan

#28. I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

Pete Rose

#29. It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

Naoto Kan

#30. Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

Naoto Fukasawa

#31. The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'

Naoto Kan