Anime Quote by Morinosuke Kawaguchi

“When foreign visitors, unaware of this code, compliment individual Japanese, it may embarrass those receiving the praise and sometimes result in their colleagues becoming…

— Boyé Lafayette de Mente

“...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other…

— Will Schwalbe

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

— Donna Tartt

“The basic stupidity of modern Japan is that we’ve learned absolutely nothing from our contact with other Asian peoples.”

— Haruki Murakami

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

— George Mikes

Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.

— Rinko Kikuchi

“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

“One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.”

— Andrew Horvat

“I don’t get offended when you talk about the Japanese. Not because I’m not one, but because I’m not 120 million of them.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond “awesome” and “sucks”, which for a vast range of human endeavour, actually,…

— Thomas Pynchon

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

— Paul Theroux