Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.