The Ideal Teacher Student Relationship

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.

Understanding Comes Hard To Persons Of High Rank Who Are Accustomed To Phony Lifestyles That Involve No Daily Work.

From Another Point Of View, A New Situation Now Seems To Be Arising In Which Japan's Prosperity Is Going To Be Incorporated Into The Expanding Potential Power Of Both Production And Consumption In Asia At Large.

Fundamentally A Good Author Has His Or Her Own Sense Of Style. There Is A Natural, Deep Voice, And That Voice Is Present From The First Draft Of A Manuscript. When He Or She Elaborates On The Initial Manuscript, It Continues To Strengthen And Simplify That Natural, Deep Voice.

I Have Survived By Representing These Sufferings Of Mine In The Form Of The Novel.