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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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.Kenzaburo Oe
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
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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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What was more, Japan was driven into isolation from other Asian countries, not only politically but also socially and culturally.
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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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