Assertion Quote by Akira Kurosawa

“Selflessness involves giving up your self. You become a martyr. Like the Hindu kamikaze warriors. These Japanese Hindus chose to give up their lives,…

— Bill Konigsberg

I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the…

— Pico Iyer

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

“Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that country, if…

— Alexei Maxim Russell

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S.…

— Paul Samuelson

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.

— Paul Smith

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

— George Mikes

“...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other…

— Will Schwalbe

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

— Ayn Rand

The Japanese are lovely people. So humble and disciplined.

— Kunal Kapoor