Quote by Haruki Murakami

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

— Donna Tartt

“I don’t know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi.”

— Sophie Kinsella

“The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.”

— Oscar Wilde

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

— Carlos Ghosn

“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 have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.”

— Anastacia Oaikhena

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

— George Mikes

“Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it…

— Mo Hayder

“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

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

— Hidetoshi Nakata

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

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know,…

— Billy Higgins