In Japan Itself There Have All Along

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

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.

The Japanese Chose The Principle Of Eternal Peace As The Basis Of Morality For Our Rebirth After The War.

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.