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. Kenzaburo Oe actfeltfind Change image and share on social
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. Kenzaburo Oe ambiguousasiacountry Change image and share on social
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. Kenzaburo Oe formminerepresent Change image and share on social
After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped. Kenzaburo Oe bearchildhandicap Change image and share on social
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. Kenzaburo Oe ambiguitycountryday Change image and share on social
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. Kenzaburo Oe abroadarticleattempt share on social
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century. Kenzaburo Oe centurycontinuallyfamily share on social
The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic. Kenzaburo Oe buildcataclysmicjapan Change image and share on social
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. Kenzaburo Oe articlecategoricalcentral Change image and share on social
From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large. Kenzaburo Oe ariseasiaconsumption share on social
