First Quote by Dennis Banks

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

— Chic Murray

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese…

— Janis Ian

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

— Jerry Garcia

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“late as the 1950s, a foreigner who was able to speak very good Japanese would frequently encounter people who were so conditioned to believe…

— Boyé Lafayette de Mente

I am worried that young Japanese people are not very curious about the outside world - which is so different to the way we…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books…

— Hideo Kojima

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

— Anonymous

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't…

— Kelly Jones

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?

— Winston Churchill

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

— Herb Alpert

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan.…

— Dave Barry