After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new….

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 destruct….

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic..

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it..

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work..

I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son "A Personal Matter," I believe I kn….

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 ….

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 so….

The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live..

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations for….

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 pur….

The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage thei….

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 potent….

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow..

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..

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 ….

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two o….

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading ….

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 th….

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….