20th century Quote by Arthur Erickson

“. . . Japan has a fundamental problem with information itself: it’s often lacking, and when it does exist, is fuzzy at its best,…

— Alex Kerr

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will…

— Steve Jobs

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two…

— Kenzaburo Oe

“Japan is probably the best... example of the abandonment of an ancient and nature-oriented ethos for the spirit of progress, Western style.”

— John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment

Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and…

— Toni Collette

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

— George Mikes

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“The obsession with Japan in otaku culture did not develop from Japanese tradition, but rather emerged after this tradition disappeared.”

— Hiroki Azuma

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

Countries like Japan do not have to change their cultures to address their educational shortcomings; they simply have to adjust their policies and practices.

— Jose Angel Gurria

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

— Shigeru Yoshida