Able Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.

— Shuji Nakamura

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various…

— Pharrell Williams

Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity…

— Tadashi Yanai

Some may argue that countries like Japan and China improved economically without English, but they, too, are learning English fast.

— Lucio Tan

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

— Charles C. Mann

Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages!

— Phil Collins

I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize…

— Takashi Murakami

The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large…

— Minoru Mori

I think it is one of the common themes for many Japanese people to choose where to live: Tokyo or their hometown.

— Makoto Shinkai

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

— Vikas Swarup