It is singular that the Japanese, who rarely commit a solecism in taste in their national costume, architecture, or decorative art, seem to be perfectly destitute of perception when they borrow ours.

-Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop
  Unbeaten Tracks in Japan:  An  Account of  Travels on Horseback in the Interior1880 (published1885).

   A Japanese young man, A blue and white young man, Francesca di Rimini, miminy, piminy, Je-ne-sais-quoi young man. 354

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
Bunthorne and Grosvenor's duet, Patience, act 2.

The Japanese should have no concern with business.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  From Sea to Sea.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

-Kurosawa, Akira
  Something like an  Autobiography.

The Japanese†have a saying that there are two kinds of fool: those who have never climbed Mount Fuji, and those who have climbed it more than once.

-Morris,John
  Traveller from Tokyo.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

-Theroux, Paul Edward
  The Great Railway Bazaar, ch.28.