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

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

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.

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

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

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

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