Quotes of the Day

A man looks at an electric quotation board flashing the key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in front of a securities company in Tokyo on August 13, 2008
Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008

Open quoteThe novel's like a dream: everyone uniting, fighting and winning together.Close quote

  • TORU SAKAI,
  • a Japanese worker, on the revival of the 1929 Marxist novel A Crab-Canning Boat, whose No. 1 spot on Japan's best-seller list belies growing blue-collar insecurity about the nation's weak economy
Photo: Toru Yamanaka / AFP | Source: International Herald Tribune