Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

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

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

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

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. - Kenzaburo Oe

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

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world. - Kenzaburo Oe

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. - Kenzaburo Oe

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. - Kenzaburo Oe

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. - Kenzaburo Oe

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