Quote #6

About the United States: 'Fifty years of subservience to the interest of the United States has deprived the Japanese of a national purpose and engendered a paralyzing identity crisis.' [After all, Japan] 'is the only non-Caucasian society to have created a modern superpower.'

More from Shintaro Ishihara

  1. Regarding the famous novelist Yukio Mishima: 'Japan is not the same since with him gone, but his politics were a joke.'
  2. In response to China's first successful launch of a man in space: 'The Chinese are ignorant, so they are overjoyed. That spacecraft was an …
  3. On the status of politicians in Japan: 'in Japan people avoid going into politics. I was really looked down on in literary circles [when I …
  4. 'Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.'
  5. On political parties: 'A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.'
  6. Regarding the bomb-planting at the private residence of Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka: 'A bomb was planted there. I think it was d…
  7. About himself: 'I'm an existentialist--freedom and passion are the most important things to me. I was horribly disappointed when I learned …
  8. Regarding a war between China and the United States: 'Wars are a war of attrition of lives. China holds no value at all for human life and …

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