The Ambiguous Orientation Of Japan Drove The

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.

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.

After I Got Married, The First Child Born To Us Was Mentally Handicapped.

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.

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