#pan

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

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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

#abroad #along #article #attempts #been

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

#active role #against #been #criticisms #forces

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

#ambiguity #between #country #hundred #japan

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

#asian countries #been #countries #had #history

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

— Kenzaburo Oe

#asia #country #drove #into #invader

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

— Kenzaburo Oe

#basis #chose #eternal #eternal peace #japanese

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

— Kenzaburo Oe

#cataclysmic #had #japan #modelled #modern

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#bigger #company #dwarfs #each #giants

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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