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

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

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

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.

I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son "A Personal Matter," I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our "personal matter," and society.

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

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