Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I don’t think Japan’s wealth was based on exploiting China. Japan’s wealth was based on its expansion in international trade.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.

Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.