The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

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.

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

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.

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.

There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.