If Any Suffering Was Fruitless It Was

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 Way Japan Had Tried To Build Up A Modern State Modelled On The West Was Cataclysmic.

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.

There's No Better Reading Experience Than Going To The Place Where A Text Was Written.

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