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In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

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I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

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Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

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My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

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I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

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Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

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It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Writer

Born: January 12th, 1949

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