By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

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

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

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

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

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.