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

I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.

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

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.

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

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

I 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.