Against Quote by Martha Smith

The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.

— Katsuya Okada

Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside…

— Pico Iyer

Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.

— Paul Watson

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

— Tadashi Yanai

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to…

— Yoshihiko Noda

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.

— Jackie Chan

Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands,…

— Shinzo Abe

People don't put as much of an emphasis in expanding their choices, so that, you know, one of the things that I learned when…

— Sheena Iyengar

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

— John C. Danforth

Irrespective of when this may happen, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today millions of people living in Russia and, I…

— Vladimir Putin

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

There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different…

— Martha Smith