The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomic bomb.

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

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.

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

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

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

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.