Inspiration Quote by Richard H.P. Mason

“The obsession with Japan in otaku culture did not develop from Japanese tradition, but rather emerged after this tradition disappeared.”

— Hiroki Azuma

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes…

— Diana Vreeland

“They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disembowelled themselves when anything went wrong.”

— Sylvia Plath

“To sum up what is most crucial in Japanese political culture: the Japanese have never been encouraged to think that the force of an…

— Karel Van Wolferen

“in 1954 it looked as if a deep schism had been driven down the middle of our community, pitting Japanese against haole, but the…

— James A. Michener

“I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were…

— Walter Isaacson

The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the…

— Sadao Araki

“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

Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty…

— Sadao Araki

“From my perspective, there wasn’t much difference between a socialist movement, a nationalist movement, and a brutal brawl in the black market. All of…

— Masaji Ishikawa

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of…

— Hideki Tojo

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World…

— Steven Spielberg