After I Got Married, The First Child

I Have Survived By Representing These Sufferings Of Mine In The Form Of The Novel.

The Ambiguous Orientation Of Japan Drove The Country Into The Position Of An Invader In Asia.

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.

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.

Paradoxically, The People And State Of Japan Living On Such Moral Props Were Not Innocent But Had Been Stained By Their Own Past History Of Invading Other Asian Countries.