“I grew up in a goddamn pachinko parlor, okay? And I sure as shit don’t want to die in one.”— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Detective Josephus Miller, Thomas Jane, imdb.com
“Are you familiar with it? Japanese folk tales are full of this sort of thing, where the soul temporarily leaves the body and goes off a great distance to take care of some vital task and then returns to reunite with the body.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“We’ve heard Japanese users described products as ‘unnatural’, ‘foreign’, and ‘suspicious.’ Pinterest, in Japan since 2013, began refining Japanese type last year after an employee described their homepage as ‘when someone tries to overcome a language barrier by talking louder.”— Eiko Nagase, medium.com