If Any Suffering Was Fruitless

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.

It Takes A Person Of Great Care And Insight To Watch For Any Abnormality In The Green Grass Even While It Grows Abundantly And Healthily.

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.

To Be Upright And To Have An Imagination: That Is Enough To Be A Very Good Young Man.

The Writer's Job Is The Job Of A Clown …the Clown Who Also Talks About Sorrow.