History Quote by Gil Asakawa

“American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese.”

— Ryū Murakami

“My American and Japanese personalities are distinct, and I carry myself differently depending on which language I’m using and which mode I’m in.”

— Barry Eisler

“Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.”

— Melina Marchetta

“Different cultures and all that, but it’s true what they say about the Japanese being undemonstrative.”

— Donna Tartt

“I like Japan”

— all

“I don’t get offended when you talk about the Japanese. Not because I’m not one, but because I’m not 120 million of them.”

— Jarod Kintz

“See, this is why you should never try to be PERFECT. It ruins your life. And then it KILLS you. But try telling that…

— Ann Writes

“In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.”

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

“I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were…

— Walter Isaacson

“That's Chinese, not Japanese”

— Lauren Myracle

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

— Sylvia Plath

“The basic stupidity of modern Japan is that we’ve learned absolutely nothing from our contact with other Asian peoples.”

— Haruki Murakami