Author Nationality

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Nationality : Japanese

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

Nationality : Japanese

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

Nationality : Japanese

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

Nationality : Japanese

Be a positive influence in life, because you can never tell the impact your actions will have on others.

Nationality : Japanese

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer’s life with the writing. I think that’s something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

Nationality : Japanese

The future of technology is about not just building something, but building it right.

Nationality : Japanese

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Nationality : Japanese

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Nationality : Japanese

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Nationality : Japanese