Japanese Quote by Thomas Pynchon

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Japanese is a very difficult language.

— David Anders

“When foreign visitors, unaware of this code, compliment individual Japanese, it may embarrass those receiving the praise and sometimes result in their colleagues becoming…

— Boyé Lafayette de Mente

“It’s strange, but when I have to speak in front of an audience, I find it more comfortable to use my far-from-perfect English than…

— Haruki Murakami

“The basic stupidity of modern Japan is that we’ve learned absolutely nothing from our contact with other Asian peoples.”

— Haruki Murakami

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost…

— Pharrell Williams

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

— Akio Morita

Japanese people, they're not really one to complain.

— Mirai Nagasu

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

— Jerry Garcia

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese…

— Janis Ian

“In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.”

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never…

— S. I. Hayakawa