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

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

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"After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped."

Suffering

"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."

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"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."

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"The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic."

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"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."

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"In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad."

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