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As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan - the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent in the…

— Takashi Murakami

“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

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in…

— F. Sionil Jose

“Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.”

— Nick Mamatas

“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

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

— Lucy Liu

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of…

— Takashi Murakami

But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

“. . . Japan has a fundamental problem with information itself: it’s often lacking, and when it does exist, is fuzzy at its best,…

— Alex Kerr

“some Japanese philosophers have been eager to graft the newly introduced discipline of western academic philosophy onto its premodern Japanese antecedents. The conflict with…

— James W. Heisig