Japanese Culture Quotes

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat. — Anastacia Oaikhena

Like Americans, the Japanese have a silent mode, but in Japan it can be referred to as "manner mode" (Japanese Cell Phone Culture, n.d.). — Trevor Clinger

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws). — Bill Mollison

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations. — Natan Sharansky

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword. — H.E. Davey

To be an achiever doesn't mean to achieve only big things. Every small achievement counts big time. Never despise small beginnings. — Euginia Herlihy

The highest goal is not distinctions, but synthesis and harmony. — Alan Macfarlane

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. — Tadao Ando

The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one. — Big Boi

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. — Robyn Davidson

Did you know that writing stories down kills them?
Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff, unchanging things. — N.K. Jemisin

This was her heritage. Her people. So why did she feel so small and weak? So far removed from it? — Linda Gerber

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either. — Frederik L. Schodt

I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture. — Matthew Moy

Japanese medical people are traditionally very strange and creepily poetic. — David Cronenberg

Vampires? You think vampires are real? Seriously?"
"The werewolf is asking me if I believe in vampires? — Tammy Blackwell

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. — Philip Warren Anderson