Becoming Quote by Takafumi Horie

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

— George Mikes

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two…

— Kenzaburo Oe

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that…

— Bruce Feiler

You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.

— Jamie Dimon

I haven't changed, but people's perception changed.

— Hima Das

Supposedly I haven't changed.

— Anna Chlumsky

The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.

— Katsuya Okada

Unless we break from sectionalism and sticking to precedents, there will be no revival of Japan.

— Yoshihide Suga

I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the physical things…

— Asghar Farhadi

I lived in Japan for eight years before moving to New York, but I was looking forward to a place like America to change…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

— Bill Walton

I have to say, if I live in Japan, I think I was going to have different life. There is too much attention. I…

— Kei Nishikori