Japanese Quote by Ryū Murakami

“After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience…

— Ryū Murakami

“In Japan, even when you're alone, you're never really that lonely. But the loneliness you feel living among people with differently coloured skin and…

— Ryū Murakami

“My American and Japanese personalities are distinct, and I carry myself differently depending on which language I’m using and which mode I’m in.”

— Barry Eisler

I'm Japanese, of course, but spending so long in America has made me into a different kind of person.

— Kei Nishikori

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent…

— Lois Lowry

“My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.”

— Gil Asakawa

“country. The youngsters became independent; the idea of living isolated in a poor imitation of Japan was finished. We integrated into America.”

— Isabel Allende

“All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.”

— Ryū Murakami

“That is the great thing about being a foreigner—that you get to spend your life with a whole new set of cultural attachments in…

— Bill Bryson

“I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York ... but that's not what he meant.”

— L.M. DeWalt

“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 American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time.…

— Ruth Ozeki