The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.
It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.
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.
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.
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