Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.

To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.