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

"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."

"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."

"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."