Below the surface Quote by Cathy Davidson

“Despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people…

— Dave Barry

I just want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent.

— Donald Trump

We see West Asia as part of our extended neighbourhood.

— Sushma Swaraj

Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.

— Massimiliano Gioni

The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological…

— Donald Richie

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

— Dylan Moran

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

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I…

— Matthew Settle

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

Don't forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Most Americans, I think, know very little about East Asia or Southeast Asia. American businesspeople who have been here, they are very knowledgeable about…

— Mahathir Mohamad

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

— Anonymous