How Quote by Robert Lepage

We had Chinese artists that would put in elements for the Chinese audience like the calligraphy actually means something so the audience when they…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I've always been inspired by Japanese style.

— Rihanna

“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

“There is a progression from pictographic, writing the picture; to ideographic, writing the idea; and then logographic, writing the word. Chinese script began this…

— James Gleick

“with the exception of Chinese, even the languages that originated writing, and so made the earliest use of it, have dropped their original system,…

— Nicholas Ostler

“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

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

— Grimes

I don't read in Chinese very well. Google Translate helps with that. It's cool that I can upload a photo and translate the text…

— Jimmy O. Yang

“The Manyōshū is Japanese in the vital sense that the language in which it was written was Japanese, a language quite different from Chinese…

— Richard H.P. Mason

Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that…

— James Wan