Doe Quote by Mao Zedong

There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia Zhangke, one…

— Pankaj Mishra

I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things…

— Yoshihiko Noda

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable…

— Shinzo Abe

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will.…

— Haruki Murakami

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S.…

— Noam Chomsky

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

— Lee Myung-bak

“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the…

— Theodore C. Bestor

The Japanese don't write in alphabetic writing; they write in pictographs. So they never became visual, they stayed in the oral world, which is,…

— Owsley Stanley

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy…

— Barry Eisler

Since the end of World War II Japan has worked as a peaceful nation to promote co-operation and dialogue.

— Fumio Kishida

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo.…

— Haruki Murakami

Unless we break from sectionalism and sticking to precedents, there will be no revival of Japan.

— Yoshihide Suga