After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.
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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.Kenzaburo Oe
What was more, Japan was driven into isolation from other Asian countries, not only politically but also socially and culturally.
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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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Of course I would not presume to rank myself with the poetic genius Yeats. I am merely a humble follower living in a country far removed from his.
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During the last few years I have been engaged in writing a trilogy which I wish to be the culmination of my literary activities.
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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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