Doe Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.

— Rinko Kikuchi

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and…

— Ruth Benedict

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 Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants…

— Semir Zeki

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

— Ichiro Suzuki

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

— Robert Bly

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

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

“...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other…

— Will Schwalbe

Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

— George Mikes