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

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..

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia..

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

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

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….

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….

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….

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind..

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