Pages

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Japan, Caroline Kennedy


The United States is disappointed that Japan's leadership has taken an action that will exacerbate tensions with Japan's neighbors.

- Caroline Kennedy (1957- ), a statement posted on the website of the U.S. embassy in Tokyo (Dec 26, 2013)

Mr. Abe's provocative move prompted the U.S. government to issue a statement expressing its disapproval.

Monday, December 30, 2013

Japan, Luo Zhaohui (羅照輝)


Japan must bear the consequences arising from this. The visit, the first by an incumbent Japanese prime minister since 2006, causes great harm to the feelings of the Asian people and creates a significant new political obstacle to bilateral relations.

- Luo Zhaohui (羅照輝), a director-general of the ministry's department of Asian affairs, in a statement posted on a verified ministry microblog (Dec 26, 2013)

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Japan, Koichi Nakano


Bilateral summits will now be even more of a long shot. It will likely also hurt Tokyo's ties with Washington, considering how the U.S. has been pushing for Japan to improve ties with its Asian neighbors. The visit seems to make it obvious that Mr. Abe's economic polices were a guise to hide his nationalistic intent.

- Koichi Nakano, a political science professor at Sophia University in Tokyo (Dec 26, 2013)

Beauty, Spanish Proverb


The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house.

- Spanish Proverb

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Japan, Qin Gang (秦剛)



The essence of Japanese leaders' visits to the Yasukuni shrine is to beautify Japan's history of militaristic aggression and colonial rule. It is an attempt to overturn international society's just ruling on Japan's militarism and to challenge the results of World War II and the post-war international order.

- Qin Gang (秦剛), Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman, immediately after Abe's visit to the shrine (
Dec 26, 2013)

Friday, December 27, 2013

Japan, Qin Gang (秦剛)



We strongly protest and seriously condemn the Japanese leader's acts.

- Qin Gang (秦剛), Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman, immediately after Abe's visit to the shrine

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Friday, December 13, 2013

Fact, Chinese Proverb


事实胜于雄辩[shìshíshèngyúxióngbiàn]。

- 中國俗談

Facts are stronger than rhetoric.

- Chinese Proverb

Facts are more eloquent than words.

Monday, December 9, 2013

Parting, Western Proverb


Rats desert sinking ship.

- Western Proverb

Okbong Cathedral in Jinju, Korea


Okbong Cathedral in Jinju, Korea


Description한국어: 진주 옥봉성당, 등록문화재 제154호. 1933년 건립
English: Okbong Cathedral in Jinju, Registered Cultural Heritage No. 154. Built in 1933
Date8 December 2013, 12:48:45
SourceOwn work
AuthorGrampus
LicensingThis file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.


From Wikimedia Commons

Friday, December 6, 2013

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Failure, Irish Proverb


The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.

- Irish Proverb

Showcase Mall on the Las Vegas Strip

Showcase Mall on the Las Vegas Strip


DescriptionEnglish: Outback Steakhouse, Coca-Cola Store, M&M's World, Marshall's, etc. at the Showcase Mall on the Las Vegas Strip, across from New York-New York Hotel and Casino.
Date23 November 2013
SourceWikimedia Commons
AuthorNandaro
Camera location.
PermissionCC-BY-SA-3.0
LicensingThe copyright holder of this work has published it under the following licenses:


This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

You are free:
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.


From Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/


Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Journey, Mark


He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick—no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic.

+ Gospel of Mark 6,8-9

http://www.usccb.org/bible/mark/6

Friday, November 29, 2013

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Endeavor, English Proverb


Many a man has turned and left the dock just before his ship come in.

- English Proverb

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Judgement, Chinese Proverb


盖棺论定[gàiguānlùndìng]

- 中國俗談

Only when a man is dead can he be judged.

- Chinese Proverb

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Advice, Italian Proverb


Flag
of Italy
After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how it might have been saved.

- Italian Proverb

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Generation, Chinese Proverb


長江後浪推前浪
Simplified: 长江后浪推前浪
Transliteration (pinyin): Chángjiāng hòulàng tuī qiánlàng

- 中國俗談

The Changjiang River(長江) waves behind drive the waves ahead.

- Chinese Proverb

Meaning: Each new generation excels the last one.
汉语成语俗语对照词典. 南京大学出版社. 2008. p. 162. ISBN 7305052116.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chinese_proverbs

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Life, Indian Proverb


Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.

- Indian Proverb

Monday, November 4, 2013