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.

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

I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.

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

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.

From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.

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