たばこの気持ち

There were also plenty of occasional photographs.

I finished reading it with great interest, remembering what happened when I was a boy and young man, and what I was thinking and doing.

I could agree with most of what Beat Takeshi preached.

However, I would like to re-examine the position of the Japanese Constitution (the Constitution given to the United States, the Self-Defense Forces should be clarified as an army, etc.).

I am interested in Mr. Junichiro Tanizaki, and while doing some searching, I learned an interesting fact about the Order of Cultural Merit.

Mr. Tanizaki was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit in 1949, and his mentor, Kafu Nagai, was awarded it three years later.

Also, among the long history of the Order of Cultural Merit and its many recipients, only two (corrected → four) ("Mr. Kanjiro Kawai and Mr. Moriichi Kumagai" Kenzaburo Oe and Ms. Haruko Sugimura) have declined the award. While there have been quite a few people who have declined the National Medal of Honor, which has a short history, there have been very few who have declined the Order of Cultural Merit.

I was filled with a remarkable amount of admiration and respect for Junichiro Tanizaki, who wrote "The Key" at the age of 70 and "Diary of an Insane Man" at the age of 75, both at the cost of his own life.