Craftsmanship Quote by Morinosuke Kawaguchi

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

“One widespread stereotype about people in Japan is that they're exceptionally dedicated and hardworking, even though some Japanese people say they look like they're…

— Hector Garcia Puigcerver

“Japan is probably the best... example of the abandonment of an ancient and nature-oriented ethos for the spirit of progress, Western style.”

— John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment

“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

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is…

— Alain Ducasse

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

— Anonymous

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

— Anonymous

“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

You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.

— Jamie Dimon

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.

— Paul Smith