Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

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

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

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

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

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.