Basically Quote by Tadanobu Asano

You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.

— Shuji Nakamura

Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there's a Starbucks and McDonald's everywhere, and you could feel like you're…

— Will Yun Lee

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

— Akio Morita

Part of [Japanese companies] growing and expanding around the world is ... going to help the Japanese keep their lifestyles [despite Japan's] demographics, as…

— Jamie Dimon

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

— Akio Morita

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

— Tadashi Yanai

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

— Charles C. Mann

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

— Haruki Murakami

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

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

— Howard Stringer

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come…

— Peter Drucker

Countries like Japan do not have to change their cultures to address their educational shortcomings; they simply have to adjust their policies and practices.

— Jose Angel Gurria