The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher. — Kenzaburo Oe
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it. — Kenzaburo Oe
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start — Kenzaburo Oe
In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against japan suggesting that she — Kenzaburo Oe
The ambiguous orientation of japan drove the country into the position of an invader in asia. — Kenzaburo Oe
The japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the war. — Kenzaburo Oe
The way japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the west was cataclysmic. — Kenzaburo Oe
Even though we now have the half-century-old new constitution, there is a popular sentiment — Kenzaburo Oe
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening — Kenzaburo Oe
Paradoxically, the people and state of japan living on such moral props were not innocent — Kenzaburo Oe
From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which japan’s prosperity — Kenzaburo Oe
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate — Kenzaburo Oe