Enemies Quote by Ernie Pyle

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans…

— Noam Chomsky

I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

— Ichiro Suzuki

“In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most…

— Roger J. Davies

“The remarkable reversal of public attitudes toward the Japanese over the years -- especially in Australia, Peru and the United States -- suggests that…

— Thomas Sowell

“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'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

— Tadashi Yanai

“The Japanese are a disease of the skin...the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political... Two reds sandwiching a black...”

— Jung Chang

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

— Winston Churchill

“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me at that time. It was getting the war over with that bothered me. So I wasn’t worried particularly about…

— Ronald Schaffer

“They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disembowelled themselves when anything went wrong.”

— Sylvia Plath

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history…

— Kenzaburo Oe