Culture Quote by Niall Ferguson

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

— Anonymous

“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

“Lurking at the foundations of otaku culture is the complex yearning to produce a pseudo Japan once again from American-made material, after the destruction…

— Hiroki Azuma

“Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a "Yellow Peril". Might Japan forever…

— Charles Emmerson

“The occupation of Japan was the last immodest exercise in the colonial conceit known as “the white man’s burden.”2”

— John W. Dower

“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

“In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else—by turning it into a…

— McKenzie Wark

Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I don’t think Japan’s…

— Amartya Sen

In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a…

— Issey Miyake

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

— Minoru Yamasaki

“For thousands of years, imperial conquests have been launched by Asians, Africans, and indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, as well as by Europeans.”

— Thomas Sowell

“The image of Japan that obsesses otaku is in fact no more than a U.S. produced imitation.”

— Hiroki Azuma