Believing in a Japan Filled with People I Cherish—A Vow to Keep Writing Beyond Twenty Years of Hardship
2010-10-9
Because I believe that Japan is full of people like Yoshihiro Satō, my classmates and seniors, and the close friends I have made since entering the working world…people like these, I have overcome these twenty years of suffering beyond words and continued to live.
They truly were twenty wasted years, but I want to tell you that, throughout the forty years of the latter half of my life, I will keep writing, always holding all of you in my thoughts…
With my unchanging respect and affection, always…
