Japanese Traditions Quotes

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.

I feel that Japan is like my second home; this is where I want to fight.

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an emperor. In fact, a lot of revolutionary leaders do that, and you think, "Well, that's spoiling your argument. What are you doing?" But on the other hand, the people themselves are enjoying trying out all these different ways to be. I hope that, like the Japanese, the Chinese hang on to their own traditions as well as try out Western ones. I hate it when people just lose so much confidence in who they are that they abandon their own culture.

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.

My life was very Japanese.

It's true that I pick up many ideas from different Japanese things.

I love Japan; it's very special.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

It looks like they've been watching old Japan tapes!

My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you know, oshogatsu. We had obon festivals every year. All those things.

Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?

Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

I've been to Tokyo-slash-Japan - we actually went to Yokohama in 2015 and 2013 for international competitions. I think that it would be really nice to go back and do a little Olympic thing there.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

Japan is not a land where men need pray / For 'tis itself divine

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.