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

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

To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.

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

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

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.

The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomic bomb.