High school Quote by Donald Richie

It's a little bit different to than U.S. in Japan. U.S. has a lot of respect for the sports, but not as much in…

— Kei Nishikori

The Japanese are the ultimate students: they analyse things in so much detail... until they have pretty much mastered whatever they are studying.

— Nick Wooster

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have…

— Masi Oka

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

— George Mikes

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

“Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan are learning…

— Thomas Sowell

Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school…

— Fukuzawa Yukichi

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

— Haruki Murakami

In the West, it's just a given that art exists in this high-class place. But in Japan, there's no high class. The minute you…

— Takashi Murakami

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

Judo has been part of Japanese culture for a long time. It makes sense to me that this sport, which is both athletic and…

— Vladimir Putin