“ At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview. Morinosuke Kawaguchi
“ The Japanese have two words: "uchi" meaning inside and "soto" meaning outside. Uchi refers to their close friends, the people in their inner circle. Soto refers to anyone who is outside that circle. A… Alexei Maxim Russell
“ We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the grassroots realities of everyday life in contemporary Japanese c… Theodore C. Bestor
“ For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible. Yukio Mishima
“ Offerings gleam beneath consecrated trees,boulders, and caves where Kami nature spiritsminister to congregations of saki cans, lotus root, and the glow of tangerines; still-lives silent as prayer. Jalina Mhyana
“ A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is not negated. In the moment a captive lion steps out of his cage, he possesses a wider world than the… Yukio Mishima
“ Kon’s films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality. Andrew Osmond
“ While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it’s the robotic mecha that capture the imagination. Tommy Yune
“ Insta-love isn’t something that happens in real life. Ithappens in the books I read, but not in the world I live. Though herestands this beautiful, sexy, funny, sweet and amazing guy who hasdone every… Kathryn Perez
“ In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a traditional patter for selling a potion that was supposed to be particularly effective in treating burns a… Akira Kurosawa
“ I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa. Britney Spears
“ If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it! Fumio Obata
“ This may seem labouring the obvious, but in Japan one meets intelligent people who claim that ‘logic’ is something invented in the West to allow Westerners to win discussions. Indeed, the belief is wi… Karel Van Wolferen
“ If the love is true, it will wait until the dream becomes a reality. True love also gives strength to a dream. Lorraine Koh
“ Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going—people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose;… Haruki Murakami
