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.

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.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

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.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.