Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

— Utada Hikaru

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

— Grimes

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections…

— Kenzaburo Oe

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

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to…

— Lafcadio Hearn

I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for…

— Vladimir Putin

Learning Japanese was certainly a task, but my passion for the culture, as well as my will to communicate with fans and friends, always…

— Kenny Omega

I have always been a huge fan of Japanese culture, having grown up on Manga comics, their movies and food.

— Kunal Kapoor

Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.

— Amy Chozick

When I was very young, even before I went to what you call elementary school, I used to read and watch Japanese comic books…

— Shinichiro Watanabe

“A good manga is a way of reading Japan and its culture”

— Halla Ferguson