Easily influenced Quote by Hidekaz Himaruya

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

— Donna Tartt

“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

“Never trust an Italian. The Nazis did that, and look where it got them.”

— Paul Murray

“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

“Simon shook his head. ‘The Nazis in Germany…the Japanese here in Shanghai…Treating people as less than human because of the shape of their faces…

— Anonymous

“In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else—by turning it into a…

— McKenzie Wark

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

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

“That's Chinese, not Japanese”

— Lauren Myracle

“With his contrasting vision of anxious, work-obsessed, overly disciplined Italians and happy-go-lucky, carefree Germans,”

— Stephen Greenblatt

“My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.”

— 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

“As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing science from…

— Kenichi Fukui