It Takes A Person Of Great Care

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 Destination Of The Soul: This Is What I, Led On By Nils Holgersson, Came To Seek In The Literature Of Western Europe. I Fervently Hope That My Pursuit, As A Japanese, Of Literature And Culture Will, In Some Small Measure, Repay Western Europe For The Light It Has Shed Upon The Human Condition.

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.

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

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.