The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.
Kenzaburo OeI am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
Kenzaburo OeThe ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.
Kenzaburo Oe