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Even Though We Now Have The Half-century-old New Constitution, There Is A Popular Sentiment Of Support For The Old One That Lives On In Reality In Some Quarters.

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

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.

The Dead Can Survive As Part Of The Lives Of Those That Still Live.

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.