I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

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

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