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In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.
Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical.
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.
However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
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