Generation Quote by Takashi Miike

I think Japanese people like teamwork. Sometimes they don't try to be No. 1 or different to other people. That can be good but…

— Kei Nishikori

Japanese feel an intimacy with the dead, at least for people up to my generation.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death,…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is…

— Alain Ducasse

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

My life was very Japanese.

— Bryan Clay

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

— Ichiro Suzuki

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

The Japanese are lovely people. So humble and disciplined.

— Kunal Kapoor

Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in…

— F. Sionil Jose