It Takes A Person Of Great Care

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.

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 Am One Of The Writers Who Wish To Create Serious Works Of Literature Which Dissociate Themselves From Those Novels Which Are Mere Reflections Of The Vast Consumer Cultures Of Tokyo And The Subcultures Of The World At Large.

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.

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 Constitution.