“I don’t know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“The highest goal is not distinctions, but synthesis and harmony.” — Alan Macfarlane Copy Share Image
With suicide, it's a strange thing in Japanese culture. It's acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been… — Ken Ono Copy Share Image
I believe it is no secret that I like Japan very much - Japanese culture, sport, including judo, but it will not… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I have always been a huge fan of Japanese culture, having grown up on Manga comics, their movies and food. — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I love the ath-leisure look, but I'm also super inspired by anime, and I love Japanese culture so much. — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that… — Laura Bailey Copy Share Image
I loved my time in Japan, and I am grateful to have had the chance to live in Japan and embrace the… — Freddie Ljungberg Copy Share Image
Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese… — Roman Coppola Copy Share Image
“I have no idea what to say next. I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture.… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
We're girls and we're feminine so it naturally comes into the music but at the same time we intentionally put beauty and… — Suzuka Nakamoto Copy Share Image
“Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that… — Alexei Maxim Russell Copy Share Image
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten.… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
“. . . Japan has a fundamental problem with information itself: it’s often lacking, and when it does exist, is fuzzy at… — Alex Kerr Copy Share Image
As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen… — Alexander Gardner Copy Share Image
Judo has been part of Japanese culture for a long time. It makes sense to me that this sport, which is both… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“In Japanese culture there is an art of fixing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer. The lacquer highlights the pottery’s flaw… — Kim Dinan Copy Share Image
“He was righteous. He had a sense of duty, of what was right and wrong in the world, and I don't mean… — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“Since the 1970s, Japanese quality has become a byword, and many a book and article has been penned on the subject of… — Alex Kerr Copy Share Image
“Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1968, committed suicide in 1971. Two years earlier, in 1969, another great… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
Everyone who knows me knows of my love for the Japanese culture, and my desire to represent in The Land of The… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
“In Japanese culture it is said that if a vase is accidently broken and then glued back together, it becomes even more… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
“There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind… — Alan Macfarlane Copy Share Image
I was born in Japan and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
In Japanese culture, the bonsai tree symbolizes harmony and balance between nature, man and soul. This representation has since been universally adapted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations… — Theodore C. Bestor Copy Share Image
As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan - the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
“In japanese culture, there's a belief that only imperfect objects, like a cracked teacup, can truly be beautiful. This is called wabi… — Blinkist Copy Share Image
The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
