Paradoxically, The People And State Of Japan

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.

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 Knew The Most Important Thing: There Is Not Any Personal Matter; We Must Find The Link Between Ourselves, Our "personal Matter," And Society.

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 All Literature Has Some Mystic Tendency. So When We Write About Our Family, We Can Link Ourselves To The Cosmos.

In The Recent Years There Have Been Criticisms Levelled Against Japan Suggesting That She Should Offer More Military Forces To The United Nations Forces And Thereby Play A More Active Role In The Keeping And Restoration Of Peace In Various Parts Of The World.

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 Opposite Poles Of Ambiguity.