Better Quote by Bruce Feiler

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

— Carlos Ghosn

Unfortunately, our postwar policy has been to ask Japan to change so that our economic policies will dovetail. I think that is completely wrong.…

— Michael Crichton

We should continue to explain clearly that Japan's past as a peace loving nation would not change in the future.

— Fumio Kishida

The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.

— Katsuya Okada

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know,…

— Billy Higgins

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

— Arthur Erickson

In Japan, we worry too much about what the other thinks.

— Shinji Kagawa

“No appeals to its outmoded constitution can change that. Japan must rearm and take its rightful place in the world.”

— Declan Hayes

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

— Lee Myung-bak

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

— George Mikes

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

— Alex Kerr

I do not want to speak about our cooperation with Japan now. Thank God, we have had no such problems there. Nor would we…

— Vladimir Putin