Asia Quote by Roger J. Davies

“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

The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the…

— Pico Iyer

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

— Ichiro Suzuki

“The remarkable reversal of public attitudes toward the Japanese over the years -- especially in Australia, Peru and the United States -- suggests that…

— Thomas Sowell

We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.

— Rinko Kikuchi

Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside…

— Pico Iyer

In Japan, we worry too much about what the other thinks.

— Shinji Kagawa

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

— Carlos Ghosn

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

— Tadashi Yanai

“In Europe we felt that our enemies, horrible and deadly as they were, were still people. ... But out here I soon gathered that…

— Ernie Pyle

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

— Herb Alpert

The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.

— Katsuya Okada