#japan

In most collectivist cultures, direct confrontation of another person is considered rude and undesirable. The word no is seldom used, because saying “no” is a confrontation; “you may be right” and “we will think about it” are examples of polite ways of turning down a request. In the same vein, the word yes should not necessarily be inferred as an approval, since it is used to maintain the line of communication: “yes, I heard you” is the meaning it has in Japan. ↗

— Geert Hofstede

#japan #yes #communication

Of late the nights are dawning plum-blossom white. ↗

— Yosa Buson

#death

Now you can be a kikei, too. ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #death

It is the experience of those who have had to do with the various peoples of the Far East that it is easier to understand the Korean and get close to him than it is to understand either the Japanese or the Chinese. ↗

— Homer B. Hulbert

#japan #korea #experience

I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#japanese #manga #death

With each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger. ↗

— Gackt

#japanese-singer #beauty

I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny , as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it. This is what makes travel so utterly fruitless. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#travel #business

Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us! ↗

— Eiji Yoshikawa

#taira-no-kiyomori #the-heike-story #courage

Come out, Yamiko, come out... ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #death

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#days #eighteen #go #japan #means