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 That spacecraft was an outdated one. If Japan wanted to do it, we could do it in one year.'

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 par…

'Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.'

Regarding the famous novelist Yukio Mishima: 'Japan is not the same since with him gone, but his politics were a joke.'