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

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

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.

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.