The Ambiguous Orientation Of Japan

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

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.

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.

If Any Suffering Was Fruitless It Was The Agony Of A Hangover; What He Suffered Now Could Not Expiate Suffering Of Any Other Kind.

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.