To Be Upright And To Have An

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.

Understanding Comes Hard To Persons Of High Rank Who Are Accustomed To Phony Lifestyles That Involve No Daily Work.

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 Destruction? But Again, Human History Is Fraught With Tragedies In Which Man Spared No Effort To Destroy With Millenarian Joy, Only To Learn That No Messiah Appeared Afterwards.

The Ambiguous Orientation Of Japan Drove The Country Into The Position Of An Invader In Asia.

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 Of Security Which I Could Never Find Indoors.