Proverbs

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Japanese proverbs

七転び八起き

• Nanakorobi yaoki
• Literally: Fall seven times and stand up eight

In high school assembly, we were told that Japan built itself well and Japanese fall and get up, fall and get up... many times. Now I see this proverb.

Yoko Tawada on Japan never giving up.

young people develop an "inferiority complex" where they perceive people in wartime eras as being more noble and more able than they are, and therefore the audience believes that the story has nothing to do with them. Takahata argued that he wanted to dispel this mindset - Grave of the Fireflies