Paradoxically, The People And State

By Reading Huckleberry Finn I Felt I Was Able To Justify My Act Of Going Into The Mountain Forest At Night And Sleeping Among The Trees With A Sense Of Security Which I Could Never Find Indoors.

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.

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.

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