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.

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.

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

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

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 other Asian countries.

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

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

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

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 society, the state and the world.

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

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

We are here not to Make Money.We are here to Make a Difference.

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.

Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.

Sometimes good is preventing us for being better".rbasequia..

Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.