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“Even the best of mirrors can show only one side of things. old japanese quote.”

— Mkdeville

“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

“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

“Hokusai managed to integrate this into a Japanese vision of landscapes and nature prints which strike the Western viewer as utterly Japanese, and the…

— Matthi Forrer

“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

In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.

— Simon McBurney

“Japan loves bedsharing and there are lower SIDS than the west.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head.”

— Natsume Soseki

“A good manga is a way of reading Japan and its culture”

— Halla Ferguson

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

— Donna Tartt

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

— Andrew Horvat

“I like Japan”

— all