Japanese Quote by Steve Nison

“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

I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Great Books of the Western World.”

— Kevin Kelly

“Look at all the Eastern writers who've written great Western literature. Kazuo Ishiguro. You'd never guess that The Remains of the Day or Never…

— G. Willow Wilson

Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the…

— Edwin O. Reischauer

“Japan is probably the best... example of the abandonment of an ancient and nature-oriented ethos for the spirit of progress, Western style.”

— John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment

“Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.”

— Nick Mamatas

“some Japanese philosophers have been eager to graft the newly introduced discipline of western academic philosophy onto its premodern Japanese antecedents. The conflict with…

— James W. Heisig

“As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing science from…

— Kenichi Fukui

“The Enigma of Japanese Power, by Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen,”

— Dave Barry

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

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

— Anonymous