It Takes A Person Of Great Care

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

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.

As I Grew Up, I Was Continually To Suffer Hardships In Different Realms Of Life - In My Family, In My Relationship To Japanese Society And In My Way Of Living At Large In The Latter Half Of The Twentieth Century.

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.

The Destination Of The Soul: This Is What I, Led On By Nils Holgersson, Came To Seek In The Literature Of Western Europe. I Fervently Hope That My Pursuit, As A Japanese, Of Literature And Culture Will, In Some Small Measure, Repay Western Europe For The Light It Has Shed Upon The Human Condition.