The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War..

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 ma….

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel..

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher..

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with socie….

To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder,….

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 pu….

I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased..

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man..

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written..

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….

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..

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

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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 ….