Courage Quote by James A. Michener

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

— Sylvia Plath

“From my perspective, there wasn’t much difference between a socialist movement, a nationalist movement, and a brutal brawl in the black market. All of…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“But Urashima had remembered his old parents, and in Japan the duty to parents is stronger than everything else, stronger even than pleasure or…

— Yei Theodora Ozaki

It was as if Japan had fallen victim to a case of collective amnesia.

— Peter Goldman

“in case you’re interested. (It was the Soviet attack on Japan that forced Hirohito to surrender to save his war-criminal’s”

— John Brockman

“As much as I'd wanted to stay in Japan to be with him, the real reason was that I wanted control of my life.…

— Amanda Sun

“country. The youngsters became independent; the idea of living isolated in a poor imitation of Japan was finished. We integrated into America.”

— Isabel Allende

“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

“Furthermore, Tokugawa policies were not based on some dictate of unreason, such as excessive nationalism or blind expansionism. They were Confucian in inspiration, and…

— Richard H.P. Mason

“Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a "Yellow Peril". Might Japan forever…

— Charles Emmerson

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

— Donna Tartt

“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